Google Sued Over Searches as European Probes Advance – BloombergUK company's lawsuit accuses Google of "cynical manipulation of search results. Google's Matt Cutts and former ex-Googlers talk spam, rankings, and SEO tips.
Most recently, the EU has questioned whether Googles's unified privacy policy is legal, and was sued by Foundem, which has been working with Microsoft and the FairSearch players, for anti-competitive conduct.
She also twice sued Yahoo. Beverly Stayart has come up limp in her bid to hold search engines accountable for a search suggestion that links her to erectile dysfunction drug Levitra. The middle-aged Wisconsin woman is now 0-4 in attempts to prove...
Vringo made headlines last November when it successfully sued Google and AOL for damages based on online search-related patents. Microsoft has become the latest company to face a suit from Vringo subsidiary Innovate/Protect (I/P) engine over search...
Google has been successfully sued for defamation in Australia by a man who found his image associated with gangsters in search results. Michael Trkulja of Melbourne won a defamation lawsuit against Google after discovering that its search results...
Google is facing another lawsuit over their autocomplete search feature. This time, Germany’s former First Lady, Bettina Wulff, is taking the search giant to court. Google refuses to remove defamatory autocomplete suggestions that peg her as a...
Borker was sued in 2006 by two luxury manufacturers for selling counterfeits. Vitaly Borker’s online reign of terror, once used as his SEO strategy, has earned the failed entrepreneur four years in federal prison.
The company was sued for governmental censorship last year. A group of Chinese residents in New York sued the search company for conspiring to censor pro-democratic content. Three employees of Chinese search engine Baidu have been arrested for...
Apple has sued a number of Android handset vendors over alleged patent infringement, and former Apple chief Steve Jobs famously vowed to go "thermonuclear war" to beat Google in the mobile space. Apple will drop the stand-alone version of the...
Google is being sued by California-based EMG over technologies used in its Chrome mobile web browser. Google isn't the only company on EMG's radar, as it has also sued Apple, Chrysler, and Radio Shack for infringing the same patent.
Katz sued this blogger for defamation last year and lost. After Google rejected a May 2012 Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown request over a photo of himself sticking his tongue out, a minority owner of the Miami Heat has sued the...
Google is being sued by the Texas attorney general, who alleges that the search giant is withholding documents from the state. The tribulation started two years ago as an antitrust lawsuit but has since expanded into an investigation that sees...
The firms are indulging their lawyers in a game of patent ping pong that started in March when Yahoo sued Facebook for infringing 10 of its patents. Yahoo has asked for a two week extension in its patent lawsuit with Facebook as both parties seek...
With the way they are interpreting and creating their ToS every one of those 200 million users is threatened to be sued by Google. Large Youtube to MP3 conversion website Youtube-MP3.org has been threatened with legal action, and seen its servers...
TF1 sued YouTube and Dailymotion back in 2008 for intellectual property abuse, seeking damages for alleged copyright infringement on sports and movies that were uploaded to YouTube by users. Google has no obligation to “police (YouTube) content...
Google, Apple Sued Over Street View Mapping Patent Google Sued Over Urination Image Google Street View has often been the subject of controversy. The latest: Google and Apple are facing a patent lawsuit for Street View technology used on the iPhone...
One owner of an Android-powered smartphone also sued Google for a refund of £400. Google yesterday moved forward with its planned changes to its privacy policies despite some objections from consumer groups, European regulators, and 36 U.S.attorney...
EPIC sued Google earlier this month, claiming Google’s new policy violated a consent order Google signed with the FTC last year. Even as users remain ignorantly blissful, last-ditch efforts continue to prevent Google’s new privacy policy from being...
Google Sued for Violating Wiretapping Laws A new Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights was also introduced today. The ad industry has also signed on to the browser-based do no track standard. Companies that are [Digital Advertising Alliance] members...
Autocomplete, a feature that is quite popular among Google's users, has also been the subject of defamation cases in other countries, such as in Ireland when a hotel sued Google for suggesting it was in financial trouble (a case which was later...
