Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'legal'

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