There Is No Reason To Hold Google Responsible For Trafficking Illegal Sites
But, regardless of those expenses (and ServerCheck’s decision to not recover them), the ruling court decided that “Google can’t be found liable for finding Web pages that may be involved in illegal activity based on search terms. The court also rejected an argument the Suggest feature offered a misleading advertisement, since that’s not the intended function of Suggest.”
Everyone in the world wants a piece of Google now. Succeeds breeds contempt.
This is an interesting decision. It means the search engines bear no responsibility for illegal or immoral practices of the websites they catalogue and rank. If an outlaw website matches the search terms it is ranked for, according to this decision, Google is off the hook. That’s a good thing.
I’m not sure it would benefit anyone to require Google to screen search terms and delete any that are considered fraudulent by moving and often disparate standards. What’s legal in one country may not be legal in another. If a certain country wants to censor the search terms and block them at the ISP level then that decision is on its heads of state. There is absolutely no reason to require the search engines to do the policing for them.
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