Suing Google Over Pagerank

Yardboy wrote in to tell us about a story from Reuters describing a lawsuit by parental advice company Kinderstart.com against Google for 'charging it unfairly deprived the company of customers by downgrading its search-result ranking without reason or warning.' Kinderssart claims Google is responsible for 'a "cataclysmic" 70 percent fall in its audience -- and a resulting 80 percent decline in revenue.' I guess the courts will now decide: Can google taketh what they giveth?

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Re:The Lawsuit is Well-Grounded

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How about electric companies and water utilities? Or do you see a distinction there too? If such a utility failed to serve a customer, should there not be legal redress?

I suspect you'd tell the legislature and courts to "go to hell" until some corporate behemoth started goring YOUR ox. Then I'm guessing you'd have something to say about what they should be "let" to do. You do sound like a libertarian, but that's OK. Some of my friends are even Republicans.