Will Google Autocomplete have to be filtered to alter predictions in different countries, and even for various key words? Since Google’s Autocomplete predictions are based on relevant searches that users have conducted previously — and also related to Google+ profile information about individuals who are being searched — Google may have to find another way to predict results.
Can an automated Google feature that ostensibly helps users with a search be a basis for libel? Courts in Germany, Italy and Hong Kong have had to field that question.
Google’s position is that there is no human intervention, and that its algorithm is based merely on what others have searched
for, or strings of words in indexed pages.
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Takeaways from the Trenches: the JetBlue/Spirit Merger Trial
Foley Partner Ben Dryden will moderate a panel for the ABA State Enforcement and the Mergers and Acquisitions Committees as they host a panel consisting of both enforcers and private practitioners, who will discuss the JetBlue/Spirit merger and what this decision may mean for the future of merger enforcement, including in the airline industry.