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Google bomber fined $37,000 for libel
According to
this
article, a coffee roaster business rival has learned that
playing nasty tricks like "Google Bombing" can land them in big
trouble. The Defendant denies Google bombing, but the jury has
yet to award punitive damages, with could be millions of dollars:
A worker at a gourmet coffee company is guilty of libel for
hijacking a rival roaster's Web site and linking it to pages
displaying pornography and foul language, a jury has found.
Tim Dominick, roasting director of Sacred Grounds in Arcata,
was found guilty Thursday of two counts of libel and one count
of intentional infliction of emotional distress against the
owners of Bayside Roasters.
Dominick bought the Bayside Roasters Web site domain name when
the registration lapsed and linked the site's address to a page
containing definitions of an off-color word for a body part, the
jury found.
Later Dominick caused a pornographic Web site to be the first
site recommended on the Google search engine when users typed in
Bayside Roasters, according to the ruling, a practice known as
"Google-bombing." . . .
The jury awarded Pamela and Kregen Olsen, owners of Bayside
Roasters, $37,000 in compensatory damages. A judge on Tuesday is
set to decide how much the couple should receive in punitive
damages.
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