Search Engines–Legal Issues
Source: Findlaw
Why You Can’t Sue Google
From the column by Julie Hilden: “As Google prepares for its Initial Public Offering, it’s worth reflecting on a special advantage the law gives to it, and to other, similar search sites: Such sites are, in effect, immune from much of the liability risk a traditional publisher of news and other factual information faces. For publishers of books, magazines, newspapers and the like, publishing, or even re-publishing, a false statement can trigger defamation liability. But, for reasons I will explain, the same is not true for search sites like Google. Search sites can provide access to information that may be false, without worrying about the risk of a defamation suit. (No wonder, then, that Google’s stock may turn out to be valuable; some of the value it will have doubtless comes from this special legal bonus.)”

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