Google was found unliable for showing defamatory comments in search results

As a British judge ruled in a decision made known on Monday, Google is not responsible for aspersion online comments that appeared in its Internet search results. 

Google cannot be considered a publisher under English law, as company’s automated search engine works over the Web and indexes content without any human input, as Justice David Eady reported. As the judge wrote in a decision dated July 16, Google had not authorized or caused the comments to appear on a user's computer screen.

 European provider of long-distance vocational skills for adults Metropolitan International Schools sued Google as well as an online bulletin board for negative comments posted about its business practices. 

As stated Gabriel Stricker, Google spokesman, the company was pleased with the ruling, which pressed the principle that search engines are not responsible for content that is published on third-party web sites.