Web Site Files Complaint Against Google

Web Site Files Complaint Against Google
Mar 17 6:36 PM US/Eastern
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By MICHAEL LIEDTKE
AP Business Writer


SAN FRANCISCO


Google Inc.'s mysterious methods for ranking Web sites came under attack Friday in a lawsuit accusing the online search engine leader of ruining scores of Internet businesses that have been wrongfully banished from its index.

The civil complaint, filed in U.S. District Court in San Jose by KinderStart.com, seeks to be certified as a class action representing the owners of all Web sites blacklisted by Google's Internet-leading search engine since January 2001.

KinderStart, a Norwalk-based Web site devoted to information about children, says it was dropped from Google's index a year ago without warning.

"The world is becoming increasingly 'Googlized,'" said Gregory Yu, a lawyer for KinderStart. "For most people, that has been a good thing, but not for everyone."

A Google spokesman said the company hadn't seen the suit and had no immediate comment.

KinderStart alleges Google has engaged in anticompetitive behavior and misled the public by positioning its search engine as an objective source for finding Internet content. The suit seeks unspecified financial damages and a court order that would require Google to change its ways.

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Excuse me but I thought Google was a private company. No one forces anyone to sign up for Google ads or indeed to have anything to do with Google. (This lawsuit sounds like sour grapes to me) While I think Google maintains a double standard (As do most companies and individual's) and I don't like Google they are IMO free to run their company as they see fit.