March 23, 2007 at 18:45Belgian company lost in court Google
A Belgian court dismissed a lawsuit filed by a software company, which said that the Google search engine returned serial numbers and “cracks” in the search results that help to illegally register their software.
ServersCheck BVBA , located in the Belgian Leuven, accused Google of the possibility of Google Suggest , which automatically offers (hence the name of the Suggest service) the most popular user requests as you type the request.
The lawsuit was filed in May 2006 and demanded that Google amend Suggest so that it would stop displaying tips containing pirated terms, but did not try to get damages from the company.
So, when “ServersCheck” was typed in Google Suggest, the system offered to use the request “ServersCheck keygen”.
On March 1, a Belgian court dismissed the lawsuit, saying that Google could not be held accountable for finding pages that might be involved in illegal activities based on search queries. The court also dismissed the suggestion that Suggest’s features offer misleading ads because it’s not the intentional Google Suggest’s opportunity, said Trevor Callaghan, Google’s lead lawyer for Europe.
ServersCheck BVBA , located in the Belgian Leuven, accused Google of the possibility of Google Suggest , which automatically offers (hence the name of the Suggest service) the most popular user requests as you type the request.
The lawsuit was filed in May 2006 and demanded that Google amend Suggest so that it would stop displaying tips containing pirated terms, but did not try to get damages from the company.
So, when “ServersCheck” was typed in Google Suggest, the system offered to use the request “ServersCheck keygen”.
On March 1, a Belgian court dismissed the lawsuit, saying that Google could not be held accountable for finding pages that might be involved in illegal activities based on search queries. The court also dismissed the suggestion that Suggest’s features offer misleading ads because it’s not the intentional Google Suggest’s opportunity, said Trevor Callaghan, Google’s lead lawyer for Europe.