Google issues a ton of manual actions, in fact, last year they issued ~500 per hour alone. But one publisher based in Florida is suing Google over being delisted over a set of pure spam manual actions that delisted 231 web sites from this publisher.

Eric Goldman covered it at Forbes and said that the publisher sued Google, Google tried to dismiss the case before going to court and a judge said no, Google you have to go to court.

This doesn’t mean the publisher will win, I doubt they will. It just means Google has to go to court and fight the lawsuit.

Here are the allegations from the court summary from the publisher:

Here is the full complaint.

Can you imagine if Google loses? Can you imagine the number of lawsuits that would follow?

Forum discussion at Twitter.