A line has been finally been drawn under an Adelaide woman's 12 year legal battle against global tech giant Google after she sued the company twice, mostly unrepresented – and won.
It looks like it wasn’t search results but web snippets. They are basically republishing stuff from other websites. They don’t do it to be helpful. They do it to keep you on Google sites for longer.
It looks like she requested the removal and it was defamatory. They didn’t.
I agree, websites should not be responsible for the user generated content they host. However, this was not user provided. This was Google giving answers, not search results, based on its interpretation of the web. Not only that but any suer submitted content should have moderation. Here, they are choosing not to manually moderate and paid for it.
It looks like it wasn’t search results but web snippets. They are basically republishing stuff from other websites. They don’t do it to be helpful. They do it to keep you on Google sites for longer.
It looks like she requested the removal and it was defamatory. They didn’t.
I agree, websites should not be responsible for the user generated content they host. However, this was not user provided. This was Google giving answers, not search results, based on its interpretation of the web. Not only that but any suer submitted content should have moderation. Here, they are choosing not to manually moderate and paid for it.