French Court Frowns On Autocomplete, Tells Google To Remove Searches

Posted by timothy on Friday January 6, 2012 @11:44AM from the la-coste-has-an-esalligator dept.

New submitter Lexx Greatrex writes with this excerpt from Ars Technica: "Google had been sued by insurance company Lyonnaise de Garantie, which was offended by search results including the word 'escroc,' meaning crook, according to a story posted Tuesday by the Courthouse News Service. 'Google had argued that it was not liable since the word, added under Google Suggest, was the result of an automatic algorithm and did not come from human thought,' the article states. 'A Paris court ruled against Google, however, pointing out that the search engine ignored requests to remove the offending word... In addition to the fine, Google must also remove the term from searches associated with Lyonnaise de Garantie.'"

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Re:I'm sure... by Hognoxious · 2012-01-06 13:09 · Score: 1, Redundant

Overly Critical Guy wrote:

Monopoly means "the exclusive possession or control of the supply or trade in a commodity or service." Google is the dominant search engine as well as the dominant web advertiser.
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