Google is being sued again.

[SonicChao05]

Originally Posted by SearchEngineWatch

h2Google Sued For Allegedly Profiting On Child Porn/h2pThe a href="http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-briefs5.1may05,1,2494927.story?coll=la-headlines-business&ctrack=1&cset=true"LA Times/a & a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=1925341&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312"ABC News/areports that Google is being sued by Nassau County Legislator, JeffreyToback (in Long Island, New York) for allegedly profiting on childpornography. The lawsuit "is a proactive step to keep children safe,"Toback said and that the suit is not seeking monetary damages, it justwants Google to be more proactive on blocking out illegal pornographyfrom both the paid and organic results./ppIt is important to notethat only Google is being sued here, and not Yahoo, MSN or Ask.com.Also, Matt Cutts is famed at Google for writing the "safe searchfilter" at Google, I believe. Past coverage of pornography issues atthe search engines include;/pp+ a href="http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/050405-194137"Google Removes Child Porn Post & Reports To FBI/abr+ a href="http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/050513-121304"Yahoo Sued Over Child Porn On Yahoo Groups/a/ppThere is also many more stories on spam and porn issues out there in the blogosphere with Google./ppbPostscript/b: Eric Goldman from Marquette University Law School a href="http://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2006/05/google_sued_for_1.htm"informed/ame that Yahoo went through the same thing and they won a motion todismiss. He also says that the "lawsuit is almost certainly preemptedby a href="http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode47/usc_sec_47_00000230----000-.html"47 USC 230/a."/p

brbrI don't think it is Google's fault. I doubt they can control bots that are supposed to SCAN everything. Even bad things.br

[mondine]

The suit is nonsense, and will probably be summarily dismissed, as others have before it.
It's not the job of any search engine to police the content of the Internet.
Ridiculous.

[dauodwa]

google get millions of sites apply to get afvertised everyday, and they expect them to know whats in every one of them? absolute bs.

[IamTheKing9]

Yeah, I agree. How can a search engine be expected to go through the content of the millions of websites that it indexes? As mondine said, its ridiculous.

[chinacorner]

Is Google Guilty?
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0% [ 0 ]
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Total Votes : 5

[Anita]

I agree. It's not up to Google, it's up to us as consumers to police ourselves by not visiting those type of sitesif we aren't into that, by paying close attention to what our children are doing on the Internet, and by reporting to the filtering companies that we use when their filters do not work. We also must report any of that type of spam when we get it to our ISP's so that they can help us address it. Eventually, everyone will be better served.

[dauodwa]

Good to see no one has been so stupid as to state that google IS guilty.