Australian court rules Google is not a publisher in major defamation suit win for tech giant

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NEW: Australian court rules Google is not a publisher in major defamation suit win for tech giant

An Australian court ruled that Google is a search engine and not a publisher of a defamatory article, siding withIt's a win for Google in a years-long defamation suit in which the company argued that article hyperlinks "only communicates that something exists...and it is the operator of the webpage who communicates the content to the user.

Google had been notified of the defamatory article in February 2016, but did not remove it until December 2016. Users accessed the article accessed 150 times in that time span, per the

 

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