I’ve read a couple of things on various blogs and forums recently regarding lawsuits brought by people who have the right royal hump with Google over one thing or another. I decided to go off on one of my random end-of-day internet searches to see just who is suing the great G-Meister this month, and why.

A lawsuit was filed against Google recently for infringing a patent on hyperlinks. Google committed the heinous crime of adding options to links. The lawsuit was filed the same day the patent was granted. Can anyone spell “opportunist”?

Here’s another cracker. Apparently they’ve given someone a bad ranking. There’s a bit of a new slant on this one though… this time Google are being sued because a building contractor doesn’t appreciate the fact that Google indexed bitter complaints by consumers about their service which rank second in response to queries on the company name. Not so much a bad ranking as a bad review. Food critics had better watch out on this one, a precedent could well be set.

A great British publishing institution, The Daily Telegraph, is threatening to stick it to Google and AFP France is already suing in response to the big G’s sinister activites. Apparently they are terribly upset over the fact that Google (and Yahoo) regularly index the content on their online news site before re-using it in their own news search engines. Shock horror, murder, polis, as we say in Scotland. As Lee of GetVisible quite rightly points out in his blog, they could well have saved themselves the bother simply by investing ten minutes in constructing a robots.txt file telling Google to get lost. Also, Google themselves have pointed out that they’ll happily de-index anyone who asks them.

Well, you must excuse me. I’m off to go and compile a lawsuit against Sergey Brin and Larry Page. I’m either the mother of their secret love child, or I’m pissed off because I actually came up with the concept of a search engine when I was at nursery school in 1978. I’ll be calling my nursery teacher as a witness. She quite clearly saw me demonstrate the concept with naught more than a xylophone and set of drums (the algorithm), a dressing up box (web server) and some crayons (the search terms). Hmmmm…

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