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Google not liable for defamatory search snippets: “

High Court heads off flood of cases from world + dog

Google is not the publisher of defamatory words that appear in its search results, the High Court ruled yesterday. Even when Google had been told that its results contained libellous words, it was not liable as a publisher, said Mr Justice Eady.…

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(Via The Register – Public Sector.)

Privacy-protecting search engine ignores IP addresses: “A Dutch search engine has become the first to operate without recording the address of the computer used to make the search. Ixquick said it had taken the move to protect users’ privacy.”

(Via OUT-LAW News.)