Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Google ordered to pay $ 500,000 to F1 racer Barrichello
Internet giant Google has been ordered to pay 500,000 dollars in damages to Formula 1 racer Rubens Barrichello for hosting fake online profiles of him on its social network Orkut.
Fake profiles at Orkut are seems common. In fact, orkut's top 50 communities, with more than 37 million total members and nearly 1.3 million daily visitors, have no illegal content whatsoever.