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"Indeed, Google lawyers have explicitly argued that the judge should avoid allowing documents to become public solely because it is “clickbait.” To put it diffe
by passwordoops 3y ago
"Indeed, Google lawyers have explicitly argued that the judge should avoid allowing documents to become public solely because it is “clickbait.” To put it differently, the search giant literally argues material should stay sealed merely because if that material is interesting. "
There's nothing about industry secrets. Google's lawyers don't want to "embarrass" the company or its execs.
- thfuran 3y agoIn a sane world, the lawyer would be censured for even suggesting that.
- batch12 3y ago> allowing documents to become public solely because it is “clickbait.” The irony is, the company makes a lot of money from 'clickbait'.
- nerpderp82 3y agoIt isn't even embarrass, it is backlash at lies, hypocrisy and contorted justifications that they are ultimately making. This judge has no business presiding over this case.
- ploum 3y ago"If you want to hide something, you should not be doing it in the first place" Eric Schmidt, then Google CEO
- fourthark 3y agoHe meant "you".
- Jensson 3y agoGoogle probably has data of the others bids. If Bing bid billions for that spot as well and Google had to outbid them, then I think it is fair for Google to bring that up as evidence. At the same time Microsoft and Apple probably don't want to reveal to the public what actually happened there, so it makes sense for the judge to keep that under wraps since it isn't related to Google. Google maybe even signed an agreement to keep that secret, so they aren't allowed to reveal evidence about Apple or Microsoft to the public, in that case it wouldn't be fair for the court to force Google to breach that contract just to defend themselves.
- cool_dude85 3y agoSorry Mr. Judge. Says here I signed this agreement with my competitors that if I'm ever on trial, nothing about it can be made public.
- Jensson 3y agoYeah, I assume that is basically it. What would you expect to happen in that case? I'd assume nobody involved wants the world to see how these deals are made, and the judge probably agreed since this is a trial against Google and not Googles competitors.