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?

Comments

Re:mod parent up

[gimplar]

Exactly! And Microsoft is a private company, they can choose to break compatability between any application and their OS if they so choose!

Re:Try the 'in-your-shoes' test

[Anonymous Coward]

If I had mod points... I would mod you up.

wow.

[larry bagina]

I first read about this story on March 17th (through this AP article), and submitted it to slashdot. So, 2 days (and 748 diggs later), it's now front page material.

Quite frankly, I'm not sure why VA Linux bothers paying the slashdot "janitors". They could be replaced with a 10 line perl script that monitors digg stories (and posts them 2 days later) and roland piquiepealle's blog.