100% certainty. And they'll do it for almost any amount. This case would have enormous implications if Google lost it. Not just in Australia but worldwide as others would look to it for influence....
100% certainty. And they'll do it for almost any amount.
This case would have enormous implications if Google lost it. Not just in Australia but worldwide as others would look to it for influence. While other countries will make decisions within their own legal frameworks they're all still influenced by first world decisions elsewhere, especially high profile ones in big-tech.
Google images and google search both operate on a guesswork framework that's based on what people are talking about on the internet, not what is TRUE, just what people are talking about. There are millions of things, topics, subjects, individuals, and so on, that are talked about in contexts that make them look bad - particularly by the denizens of high-quality discussion all over the internet. (if any ambiguity about my sarcasm exists, allow me to dispel that)
The very fact that this case has popped up is going to scare people internally. They do NOT want to get inundated with cases for every single thing they incorrectly associate with another thing.
Worse still - If a person uses their facebook account for writing comments about, for example, news articles, it is possible to associate YOUR OWN name with horrible horrible topics on the internet.
I could go onto news sites and use my real name to post comments to news articles on a single topic, if I do this enough and have success with those comments then google is going to pick it up and associate that name with those articles in some way or another. Especially if it's a unique name.
You could deliberately associate your name with something and then sue for defamation when your name shows up as associated with a topic.
The rabbit hole runs super deep and dangerous on this one for google. Search engines would have to find an entirely new way to function as the current methods would become entirely unworkable.
Google is going to totally settle.
100% certainty. And they'll do it for almost any amount.
This case would have enormous implications if Google lost it. Not just in Australia but worldwide as others would look to it for influence. While other countries will make decisions within their own legal frameworks they're all still influenced by first world decisions elsewhere, especially high profile ones in big-tech.
Google images and google search both operate on a guesswork framework that's based on what people are talking about on the internet, not what is TRUE, just what people are talking about. There are millions of things, topics, subjects, individuals, and so on, that are talked about in contexts that make them look bad - particularly by the denizens of high-quality discussion all over the internet. (if any ambiguity about my sarcasm exists, allow me to dispel that)
The very fact that this case has popped up is going to scare people internally. They do NOT want to get inundated with cases for every single thing they incorrectly associate with another thing.
Worse still - If a person uses their facebook account for writing comments about, for example, news articles, it is possible to associate YOUR OWN name with horrible horrible topics on the internet.
I could go onto news sites and use my real name to post comments to news articles on a single topic, if I do this enough and have success with those comments then google is going to pick it up and associate that name with those articles in some way or another. Especially if it's a unique name.
You could deliberately associate your name with something and then sue for defamation when your name shows up as associated with a topic.
The rabbit hole runs super deep and dangerous on this one for google. Search engines would have to find an entirely new way to function as the current methods would become entirely unworkable.