根据 CNET News 的消息，英国高等法院法官 David Eady 上周四裁定，谷歌无需为其搜索结果中诽谤性内容承担法律责任：
A court in the United Kingdom has ruled Google isn’t on the hook for defamatory information in its search results, saying the company facilitates access to the information but isn’t a direct publisher.
意思就是，Google 不应该为在搜索结果中出现的诽谤内容负责，因为 Google 仅仅是传播了这些信息，而不是一个直接的发布者。
事件的起因，是英国一家名为 Metropolitan International Schools 的公司，发现通过 Google 搜索该公司的信息，链接到了一个 Digital Trends forums 的论坛上，其中有对该公司不利的负面评论。
在判决书上，还写道：
…When a snippet is thrown up on the user’s screen in response to his search, it points him in the direction of an entry somewhere on the Web that corresponds,…It is for him to access or not, as he chooses.
If a scholar wishes to check for references to his research topic, he may well consult the library catalogue. On doing so, he may find that there are some potentially relevant books in one of the bays and make his way there to see whether he can make use of the content. It is hardly realistic to attribute responsibility for the content of those books to the compiler(s) of the catalogue.
人家说的很明白了，内容都在那，由你自己选择去看or不看。就好比如果你要找些与你论文相关的书籍，需要查阅索引，而 Google 就是提供这项服务的网站。你可以通过索引去找到类似的书籍和内容，但是内容如果是错的，难道你要去找图书馆管理员理论？
这就好比我搜不到涨工资的方法，去起诉谷歌一样，蛮无聊的。
但是事实是，这样的事最近一直在上演。
Tags: Google, Google Search
