June 19, 2008
Judge Thinks Doctor Doth Protest Google Too Much
Self-Googling may prompt you to sue for $100 million, but it doesn't mean the judge will allow the lawsuit to go forward. Yesterday, a Manhattan judge dismissed a doctor's lawsuit, which claimed his name was purposefully associated with porn sites by enemies as well as claimed he now can't stop self-Googling.
The would-be plaintiff, Dr. Arden Kaisman, had been sued by ex-employees for sexual harassment last year (he sent them emails with "sexually explicit images"), and Kaisman believes the three "conspired" to have his name associated with various porn sites, like ones for "swinging chubby plumpers" and "bisexual male erotic sex stories." Not only has his business has suffered, Kaisman said, "I find myself obsessed with 'Googling' my name.' The Internet, the great information equalizer, has been corrupted to hurt me.... I'm told I have an 'incurable Internet disease.'"
If you Google "Arden Kaisman," the first two pages of results mention in the context of medicine, testifying as medical expert in other court cases, or this lawsuit. After that, it does get a little crazy. And Pew Internet Life study last year found that 47% of Americans self-Google.
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By filing this bullshit lawsuit, isn't he bringing more attention to something that he was ashamed/did not like?
Real bright individual...
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Thankfully I was named after a household item and am immune to Google searches.
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stoopid sob haha, he deserves it.
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Physician, heal thyself! Also, write yourself a scrip for anti-idiot pills. If you thought you were embarrassed before . . . you just jumped into the deep end of the pool. You've graduated from the relatively small audience of those who google chubby swingers to the relatively large pool of people who google jackassery. Good job.
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Dave, they're not Googling "chubby swingers." They're Googling his name and finding him associated with unsavory activities. Haven't you ever checked out a doctor or other professional before doing business with them? You'd probably be upset if a prospective employer searching for "dave hogarty gothamist" brought up results implicating you were, say, involved in exchanging child porn or suspicion of murder.
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and now the link above to google the good doctor has this story on the first page
lol!
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BTW, Jen, what's this about crazy results after the first two pages? Surely you can't still have Google set to display only 10 results at a time, not in this broadband world.