A Brisbane businessman believes he is the first in the world to sue all three global online search engine giants in defamation claims worth more than $4 million.
Jarrod Sierocki has filed fresh lawsuits against Microsoft and Yahoo as part of his bid to wipe false slurs from internet searches of his name.
His claims in the Queensland Supreme Court are in addition to his ongoing suit against Google, which he lodged before winning a record damages award in 2015 in the same court against a disgruntled former business partner who defamed him on US site, ripoffreport.com.
Mr Sierocki told the ABC he was not interested in the money but in forcing the search engines to remove links to the defamatory web pages in line with a permanent injunction from the earlier court ruling.
“We’ve got orders from the court, why don’t they just pull it down?” He said.
Source: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-07-19/brisbane-man-suing-search-engines-google-yahoo-bing/10009736
