IndustryGoogle Wins Case Against Maughan Over Search Results Snippets

Google Wins Case Against Maughan Over Search Results Snippets

Eric Goldman reports that Google has won the Maughan v. Google case where Mark Maughan filed a suit against Google for the content displayed in the snippets area under a search results listing in Google.com. A search on Mark Maughan Accountancy currently shows the number one listing from www.dca.ca.gov/cba/discipline/ma-me.htm. The snippet looks like:

Maughan-Google

The complaint was that a search like the above and other variations of it “generates a list of websites ‘suggesting’ he was disciplined by the California Board of Accountancy for ‘gross negligence’ and accepting a contingent fee for the preparation of tax returns, which he says are ‘veritable scarlet letters in the accounting world’.”

Google won the case, and was also rewarded $23,000 in attorneys’ fees and costs.

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