Is a Facelift Needed for Google Search Results?
March 11, 2011
Plastic Surgeon’s Legal Quest To Facelift Google Search Results is one more question about the output from the popular Web search and retrieval system. In what is now very repetitive information, the Internet search giant, Google is being sued yet again, but this time by Spanish plastic surgeon, Hugo Guidotti Russo. Russo is suing Google because its search engine returns and unflattering article released when Russo was sued for malpractice by a patient that allegedly received a sub par breast surgery.
Let me stop for just a moment to let this sink in…Google is being sued for doing its job and returning relevant search information. Here’s a passage that caught my attention:
“Google’s position, of course, is that the freedom of information should trump the right to forget, and that search giants should not be responsible for grooming individuals’ search results.”
Though the U.S has fielded many lawsuits from disgruntled citizens with embarrassing search results, the US legal process seems to me to be somewhat unsympathetic when the allegation is frivolous.
However, this lawsuit is taking place in Europe and the verdict has the ability to create a mudslide effect in terms of the people’s rights to freedom of information everywhere.
Google is definitely in an interesting position.
Leslie Radcliff, March 11, 2011
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