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CPA Googles For His Name, Sues Google For Libel
fbform writes "Mark Maughan, an accountant, searched Google for his name on March 25 2003 and found some 'alarming, false, misleading and injurious' information about himself and his firm. Therefore, he is now suing Google, Yahoo (which used Google as its search engine at the time), AOL (for using Google to enhance its search results) and Time Warner (because they're the same company as AOL) for libel. Specifically, his lawyer John Girardi believes that Google's PageRank algorithm takes known good information and twists its context when displaying search results."
Actually nothing your guys are talking about "begs the question." Begging the question is a logical fallacy. You are both raising the question, not begging it.
Karma: Meh (Mostly from meh.)
Regarding your sig, your karma might be neutral because you're an idiot. Did you see the part in the parent post where he says, "The usage has changed. Deal with it."?
No, you just reposted a link to the same material as the original pedantic fool. Either you're a moron or you're a troll (in which case, also a moron).
I'm sorry, but some of the things I see people suing for is downright stupid. The American legal system is pretty much pathetic at this point. When people start doing things like this, it just makes me wonder.
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It's Saturday night, I'm drunk and I've never had bad karma, so go ahead and mod me down
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You misspelled "moron".
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