Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'legal'

The New York TImes reports Microsoft has filed suit against Eric Lam, Gordon Lam and Melanie Suen, of Vancouver, British Columbia. The suit comes after a year of investigative work by Microsoft in tracking down reports of click fraud. According...

Posted on June 17, 2009 7:54 AM

In April at Search Engine Land I reported Google agreed to settle on an AdWords case for $20 million. The case was over the daily budget feature and how many advertisers may have exceeded that budget by 120% on occasions....

Posted on June 10, 2009 8:13 AM

In early March we reported that if you take Google to small claims court, you might win. It talked about the story where a small AdSense publisher sued Google in small claims court for terminating his account and not paying...

Posted on June 9, 2009 8:44 AM

This week, we had two major stories about Google seriously causing trouble with their search snippets. The first is more obvious with The Register reporting a webmaster was sued for his listing in Google showing something that was not even...

Posted on June 5, 2009 7:53 AM

Yesterday, I wrote at Search Engine Land about a report from The Register about how a Dutch company was sued over the snippet Google choose for a certain web page of theirs. Let me quickly explain what happened. A web...

Posted on June 3, 2009 8:20 AM

About a week ago, we asked our readers if they like or dislike the new AdWords trademark policy. The new policy gives some advertisers the ability to use trademarked terms in the ad copy. We asked our readers if they...

Posted on May 28, 2009 8:12 AM

While my wife was giving birth to our baby, Google sent me an email telling me they have made a serious change to their AdWords trademark policy. The AdWords blog explains that now, in the US, advertisers can use the...

Posted on May 19, 2009 1:55 PM

In any business field, making sure to protect your business from being taken advantage of through the legal arena is something that every company must be prepared for. The larger you are, the more chances you are to be hit...

Posted on May 18, 2009 1:20 PM

ShoeMoney Sues Google Employee For AdWords Violations from TechCrunch shows how Jeremy Schoemaker (aka ShoeMoney) has filed suit against a Google AdWords employee for allegedly bidding on his trademark and possibly for stealing his keywords. TechCrunch explains that Jeremy found...

Posted on April 8, 2009 8:19 AM

There are two different threads at WebmasterWorld that show publishers, advertisers and affiliate's concern over a new proposed tax law in California. The law, as understood in the thread, would potentially tax any seller who using AdWords to market their...

Posted on March 23, 2009 7:18 AM

Last week at Search Engine Land, I covered an Eric Goldman story on Utah trying to pass a bill for the third time, on regulating search ads. In short, the bill finally passed in the Utah House (still needs to...

Posted on March 10, 2009 9:06 AM

Argentina Forcing Google & Yahoo To Censor Search Results from Search Engine Land covers this very well. In short, Argentina is forcing, by court order, Yahoo and Google to censor their search results. The results being censored are for select...

Posted on November 12, 2008 9:18 AM

Google lost their Gmail dispute in Germany and they had to remove redtube.com (and the like) from Google.de, plus other cases I am missing right now. This week, Bloomberg reports that Google "lost two copyright lawsuits in Germany over displaying...

Posted on October 16, 2008 8:12 AM

To continue our coverage of Google ads on Yahoo Search, where advertisers are both happy and sad about this deal... The SEC has been sitting on reviewing the deal and requested more time. Google CEO said that with or without...

Posted on September 19, 2008 8:11 AM

The New York Times has a story about an AdSense/AdWords arbitrageur, a webmaster who makes money off getting visitors to his site through AdWords to have them click on his AdSense ads. The story is named Stuck in Google's Doghouse,...

Posted on September 15, 2008 8:13 AM

Bigreds, an internet retailer has decided to sue Yahoo for $1 million over click fraud starting back in 2002. Yahoo offered Bigreds $17,000 back, but Bigreds wants more and they are suing for over $1 million in damages and penalties....

Posted on April 17, 2008 7:56 AM

Privacy International released a report this weekend rating Google at the bottom of bottom, in terms of their privacy practices. They even published an open letter to Google over their practices calling for "an apology" for calling this report "a...

Posted on June 11, 2007 7:42 AM

A DigitalPoint Forums thread points to a Digital Chosun article that reports a Korean site is suing Google for banning them in AdSense, and not paying. Google, the U.S. web search giant, faces a W30 million (US$1=W945) lawsuit in Korea....

Posted on March 19, 2007 7:38 AM

Yesterday I reported at Search Engine Land that Viacom Sues Google For $1 Billion Over Unauthorized Videos. Viacom said they are basically tired of Google not doing enough to remove their content from YouTube. Google said they have "not received...

Posted on March 14, 2007 7:29 AM

The big news over the weekend was that Microsoft to blast Google for its copyright policy via Reuters. Let me give you some quotes to some things up quickly. In prepared remarks to be delivered to the Association of American...

Posted on March 7, 2007 7:26 AM

Yesterday at Search Engine Land I reported Search Engines Do Not Have To Display All Ads Says Court based on Eric Goldman's post named Search Engines Defeat "Must-Carry" Lawsuit--Langdon v. Google. In short, a court ruled that Google and other...

Posted on February 28, 2007 7:45 AM

Lots of buzz over the weekend on Google trying to strong arm a group of Polish Poets over the domain name gmail.pl. A news article named Google sues Polish poets over gmail.pl writes: Google has launched legal action against a...

Posted on February 19, 2007 7:19 AM

A WebmasterWorld thread has discussion on recent news that Google's YouTube has handed over the identity of two YouTube users. These YouTube users uploaded Fox Network's 24 and other shows, prior to them being aired on Fox. This upset Fox...

Posted on February 14, 2007 10:28 AM

Google has once again been ordered to not index and display the content from a group of Belgian publishers. It started back in September 2006 with Google Cache & Google News Not Allowed in Belgium and then in late November...

Posted on February 13, 2007 8:07 AM

This is fairly entertaining... Via a WebmasterWorld & DigitalPoint Forums threads, a blog owner received an email from a online store owner, requesting he lower his ranking for a keyword phrase the blog is ranking well for. In short, the...

Posted on December 11, 2006 8:42 AM

I have been covering the Google & Belgium legal issues at Search Engine Watch for a while now and I thought it would be a good time to give a short summary for you here. Belgium publishers sued Google for...

Posted on November 27, 2006 7:40 AM

Seems like everyone is taking a stab at Google and YouTube's recent fortune - but that would have been expected. Everyone is talking about it now, UTube.com is suing YouTube.com for "site confusion." What is the issue, the Guardian explains;...

Posted on November 3, 2006 7:15 AM

In late July Google's $90 Million Click Fraud Settlement was Approved and we now have reports via various forums that Google advertisers are now receiving the payouts. WebmasterWorld has a two page thread with some comments; Got my $6.45 wohhooo!...

Posted on November 1, 2006 8:06 AM

Via WebmasterWorld a USA Today article named Jury awards $11.3M over defamatory Internet posts; A Florida woman has been awarded $11.3 million in a defamation lawsuit against a Louisiana woman who posted messages on the Internet accusing her of being...

Posted on October 12, 2006 7:21 AM

A WebmasterWorld thread shows that a Belgian court has ruled that the Google Cache and Google News is in violation of "particular the laws on copyright and ancillary rights (1994) and the law on data bases (1998)." Google has to...

Posted on September 18, 2006 7:06 AM

Steven Bryant wrote that Google Sued for AdSense Fraud. In short, Theresa B. Bradley, owner of bravacorp.com has sued Google for being terminated from the program after allegedly spending a hundred hours placing the Google AdSense code on her site....

Posted on August 31, 2006 7:06 AM

Earlier this month AOL Messes Up by Releasing Sensitive Search Data. Well, the other day they acted on that mistake by forcing the CTO to resign and firing the researcher who released the data, as well as his manager. AOL...

Posted on August 23, 2006 7:50 AM