German court orders changes to Google search hints

Published May 14, 2013 10:08pm ET



BERLIN (AP) — Google Inc. must respect requests to remove autocomplete entries from its search bar in Germany if they are defamatory, a German court ruled Tuesday.

The Federal Court of Justice upheld a complaint from an unidentified company selling nutritional supplements and its founder, identified only as “R.S.” The plaintiffs claimed that when their names were entered on Google’s German-language website, it suggested links to Scientology and fraud.

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