Insurer Sues Google in Alabama Over Unflattering Search Results

By | January 5, 2012

  • January 6, 2012 at 8:21 am
    George says:
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    So dumb…by suing Google you bring this negative attention public because of Google’s profile. If they’d have just sued the websites for defamation the sites would have folded up their tents.

    I guess there is a broader issue of the site owners just creating a new domain name and starting right back up again…but i generally agree that Google is not responsible for what people put on the internet. If they were you would have to charge them with pedophilia, indecency, copyright infringement, intellectual property infringement, etc etc etc.

  • January 6, 2012 at 11:59 am
    wudchuck says:
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    there shud be another twist… if you used any engine besides google, how much would this have showed elsewhere? i think truly someone just wants to get into the gooooogle $$$$’s… again, they don’t control the actual content that is involved in those other websites… that would be like i have done all the research for a great resolver of a medical issue and they decide to name it after a third party who happened to get ahold of my final paperwork that had been submitted to ama… so does ama get the credit or does it truly belong to the actual researcher?! the researcher… it’s not unfair!… do your homework and invalidate those bad websites… do you always believe everyone thing on the internet? if so, i have a brooklyn bridge that i can sell you!

  • January 6, 2012 at 12:22 pm
    Oli says:
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    They are idiots, all this is going to do is shed negative light on their practice, and all it proves is that they don’t understand how the Internet works.

    I would like to see how Google is committing deceptive trade practices, since they have an unbiased algorithm. Most of these scam/complaint review sites have well build fraud detection, and in most cases the complaints are posted by real people.

  • January 6, 2012 at 1:34 pm
    Cheetoh Mulligan says:
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    American Income Life should just change their name if they feel they are getting unfair and poor publicity.

    • January 6, 2012 at 4:50 pm
      Anejo says:
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      Isn’t AIG available?

  • January 6, 2012 at 2:00 pm
    TC says:
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    Many companies and professionals have tried these lawsuits before and failed. There is no secret or complicated mathematical formula to getting one’s website link to the top of the search list. Believing there to be one is usually an indication of a lack of understanding of how to use the internet to a competitive business advantage. It’s probably even easier than trying to come up with dollar figure for hypothetical lost income.

  • January 6, 2012 at 5:36 pm
    J.S. says:
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    An insurance company filing a frivolous lawsuit. Am I the only one seeing the irony here?

  • January 9, 2012 at 10:43 am
    ComradeAnon says:
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    I’m sure Rick “Frothy” Santorum would support this suit.

  • January 9, 2012 at 11:33 am
    Gork says:
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    Don’t they need to prove the accusations are false, not just claim they’re false?



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