Google News

It's official: Google's page rankings are constitutionally protected speech. Yes, that seems obvious, but one company nonetheless brought suit against the search engine when its page position fell. A federal judge in Oklahoma dismissed the case this week, commenting that "there is no conceivable way to prove that the relative significance assigned to a given Web site is false. Accordingly, the court concludes Google's PageRanks are entitled to full constitutional protection."

Comments

[Warren]

Google has too much power! It can not be allowed to determine the fate of so many others for it's own purposes. We need congressional oversight! This is a clear example of a "utility" that must be strictly regulated. Only the federal government can assign search engine rankings fairly to all the people! Underbrowsed sites need affirmative action to counter societal prejudice. I think there should at least be a new federal agency and over-funded bureaucracy, maybe even a web czar with complete authority over anything on the World Wide Web.

[Bookworm]

Dingel, why?

It's the same old crap you can find in rags like the NY Times, the LA Times, or on sites following the pied piper like Reuters, Drudge, and the usual alphabet soup.

So what! So a web designer at Google wants to justify his position by creating a news site. So? Nothing new there.

No big deal, folks. Don't even bother surfin? there.

[Dingel]

When I saw the headline "Google News," I thought there was going to be commentary on http://news.google.com