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13 January 2003

Google Responds to Search King Lawsuit

Back in October of 2002, we reported how portal developer Bob Massa of Search King filed a lawsuit against Google, claiming the search engine "arbitrarily and purposefully devalued his companies' and his customers' web sites, causing his business to suffer financially".

Well Google has finally lodged an official response to the filing, which can be read here (PDF document). >> Reading through the document gives the distinct impression that this case has very little chance of making it to court. A choice extract from Google's response: "This is a meritless lawsuit... whose only articulated legal basis is unsupported by any facts".

Meanwhile, a very detailed, well-thought out and unbiased opinion of the whole saga, posted by James Grimmelmann, can be read on the LawMeme site.

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