Matt Cutts, the lead of the search spam team, posted in a Hacker News thread that is probably doesn’t make sense to sue Google over negative results.

He is responding to post named Panda loss as libel where someone considered starting a company to just sue over negative search results. Here is the tweet with the idea:

He wouldn’t be the first person who would like to do so. But would it work? Google’s Matt Cutts says likely not.

Matt said in the thread, it has been tried at least two times and both times Google won:

As you see, Matt says that if someone says something libel or defamatory, of course you can sue that person directly. But to sue Google over ranking that content, it is probably a waste of your time and money.

Forum discussion at Hacker News.

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