Sunday, March 21, 2004

Slashdot | CPA Googles For His Name, Sues Google For Libel

Slashdot | CPA Googles For His Name, Sues Google For Libel: "'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.'"

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