Category: Legal Issues in Search

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We discussed a few months ago how Google dumped the GDPR responsibilities on their AdSense publishers and customers, as opposed to taking responsibility themselves for the liability…

Back last May, we reported that Searchmetrics US had to flle bankruptcy over receptive lawsuits by Brightedge over patent infringement allegations. It really angered the SEO community at large because Searchmetrics and the CEO…

Techcrunch reported that Searchmetric’s US company has filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in Delaware because of an ongoing patent legal dispute with Brightedge.

Let me be clear…

Eric Goldman reports that a United States District Court sided with Google over a lawsuit issued by e-ventures Worldwide…

Google issues a ton of manual actions, in fact, last year they issued ~500 per hour alone. But one publisher based in Florida is suing Google over being delisted over a set of pure spam manual actions…

The New York Times reported that TripAdvisor, the large hotel and travel booking reviews site, was fined by the Italian Competition Authority for not preventing fake negative reviews on the site.

The fine was about $610…

The Wall Street Journal’s piece named Ads Tied to Web Searches Criticized as Deceptive (search for the title in Google and click from there to get the full story for free) shows how the FTC is preventing Google and other search engines from “deceiving…

This is news from last week, but it still makes me shiver. Via the BBC French blogger fined over review’s Google search placing…

Google’s Matt Cutts posted on Twitter a link to Eric Goldman (a guy who knows his legal SEO stuff) story about how a law firm sued their SEO company. Not necessarily for not achieving the rankings they wanted but rather for violating Google’s webmaste…

A major ruling just knocked Google over the head, where Europe’s top court, the The Court of Justice of the European Union…