Suing Google Over Pagerank 427
Yardboy wrote in to tell us about a story from Reuters describing a lawsuit by parental advice company Kinderstart.com against Google for 'charging it unfairly deprived the company of customers by downgrading its search-result ranking without reason or warning.' Kinderssart claims Google is responsible for 'a "cataclysmic" 70 percent fall in its audience -- and a resulting 80 percent decline in revenue.' I guess the courts will now decide: Can google taketh what they giveth?
Well, they are spammed with traffic now... (Score:5, Funny)
it's... (Score:2, Funny)
Merely a First Measure (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Well, they are spammed with traffic now... (Score:5, Funny)
... and Kinderstart sues slashdot a week later ...
In retaliation, slashdot "mis-links" a "story" mis-titled "SCO Files for Bankruptcy" to Kinderstart and Kinderstarts' resultant server bandwidth overcharges put them out of business.
Re:Well, they are spammed with traffic now... (Score:5, Funny)
In other news... (Score:5, Funny)
Google should help them out... (Score:3, Funny)
And in further news... (Score:5, Funny)
Pluto is suing the Rose Center for Earth and Space in New York City for depriving it of attention by school children by downgrading its status from "planet" to "biggest object in the Kuiper belt," without reason or warning...
and Texas is suing Alaska for unfairly depriving it of bragging rights by downgrading its rank among states listed by area, without reason or warning.
Re:fp (Score:3, Funny)
In Other News... (Score:4, Funny)
Mod Me Up! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Well, they are spammed with traffic now... (Score:3, Funny)
Slashdot as a garantor of website safety? Wow, this is a new one!
So when Slashdot links to you-know-where, you won't quickly hit the back button for fear of irreparable eye damage, because, well, it was linked from Slashdot?
Re:fp (Score:3, Funny)
That has always been true. You can sue anyone for anything.
Now, if they win, on the other hand...
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Krazy Kat [ignatzmouse.net]
Re:They seem to have articles too (Score:2, Funny)