Google To Lose Search Market Share In Russia

Google has been the default search engine company for the Mozilla Firefox browser. This is mainly due to Google’s financial support of Mozilla. In 2006, Google paid Mozilla about $57 million which amounted to 85% of their revenue. But now the Russian version of Firefox will be dropping Google as the default browser and switch it to Google’s Russian rival Yandex.

According to a blog post by Mozilla General Counsel Harvey Anderson, Russian Firefox users “wanted direct access to the Yandex search services in official Firefox RU builds” based on studying trends of Firefox Yandex builds. For the Firefox 3.1 Russian locale builds, Yandex will become the default search engine. This version will be released in the next few weeks.

In the last few months, Yandex was planning on going IPO, but postponed it until the economy recovers. Yandex gets about 50 million searches per day.

[Via Webware & TechCrunch]

Doctor Sues Patient For Giving Him Negative Review On Yelp.com

Christopher Norberg had a car accident in 2006. So he went to see chiropractor Dr. Steven Biegel. After being treated, Norberg felt that his bill was unfair so he posted a negative review of the Doc on Yelp.com. Yelp.com is a review website that includes everything from local restaurants to individual professions.

Dr. Biegel claimed that Norberg’s review was libel and caused his business “loss of reputation, shame, mortification, and hurt feelings” and “injury to his business and profession.” The filing was made in the Superior Court of California, County of San Francisco. Biegel also believes that Yelp invaded his right to privacy.

As soon as I read this article on PC World, I thought about whether The First Amendment would protect Norberg in this case. The First Amendment states:
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

In the case of Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. 418 U.S. 323 (1974), The Supreme Court ruled that opinions could not be considered defamatory. In the case of Yelp, it is clearly an opinionated website. Personally I believe that the Doc doesn’t have much of a case here. Just imagine all the negative comments everyone gets on every single YouTube video. Sometimes you just have to suck it up and have thicker skin when it comes to what people say about you on the Internet.

[via PC World]

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