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| Chilling Effects Clearinghouse > International > Notices > Individual claims defamation by way of Google links to South African satire (NoticeID 2165, http://chillingeffects.org/N/2165) | Location: https://www.chillingeffects.org/international/notice.cgi?NoticeID=2165;nocache=1 |
July 18, 2005
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Recipient Information:
[Private]
Google, Inc.
European Headquar
Dublin, 4, Ireland
Sent via: fax
Re:
Dear Sirs,
We represent [redacted]. We write to notify you that Google is publishing excerpts on its website of a highly defamatory article about our client and directing its users to the article's full text. This is causing [redacted] considerable damage.
As illustrated by the attached print out, when a Google search is carried out using our client's name the second 'hit' invariably refers to a 'Noseweek' article from August 1995. The excerpt printed by Google is defamatory in its own right [redacted]. Further, when Google's link to the 1995 article is followed to the archives on the Noseweek website (a South African satirical magazine) [redacted]
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