Lawsuit Against Google Dismissed 89
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Weather Storm writes in with news from PCWorld that a US District Court judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed against Google by a company that accused them of manipulating search results for political and religious reasons and skewing results in favor of companies that compensate Google financially. The lawsuit (discussed on Slashdot last year) was filed by KinderStart, a parenting information Web site that claims it was illegally blocked from Google search results. The judge not only dismissed the lawsuit but granted a motion by Google to sanction KinderStart and one of its lawyers. Google can now seek "reasonable compensation" for attorney fees because KinderStart's lawyer filed claims that were factually baseless and did not perform an adequate investigation before filing the lawsuit.
Go to your room! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Go to your room! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Go to your room! (Score:2, Funny)
Haha (Score:4, Funny)
Something in the water (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Wait, maybe I missed something (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Something in the water (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Not far enough (Score:5, Funny)
And it would put a bunch of lawyers out of work. What are you? Some kind of commie?
Re:A Good Start (Score:3, Funny)
Why have Google ads then? (Score:3, Funny)
I thought the Reality Distortion Field only applied to Apple...
Re:Not far enough (Score:5, Funny)
This is funny stuff (Score:4, Funny)
"All options are being explored. That's all that we are going to say at this point," Yu told news agency Reuters.
I imagine those options probably include "running away" and "hope to god they don't sue us".
Baseless claims and no adequate investigation (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Not far enough (totally OT) (Score:3, Funny)
Maybe it's just early in the morning, but I read that phrase as "creating any new precedent or coleslaw."
Then I thought WTF? You mean the judge wanted to make salad out of KinderStart? Why not just give them their just desserts?