French court orders Google to pay libel damages - media

A French court has ordered Google to pay 5,000 euros ($6,672) in libel damages to a man who claimed that searches for his name automatically yielded a list of harmful suggestions. The man, whose name was not given, said the suggested terms that came up when typing his name on Google.fr -- including the words "rape", "rapist" and "prison" -- were damaging for his reputation, court documents showed. The man had previously been condemned to a prison sentence on charges of corrupting a minor, the documents showed. The decision was published in court documents dated Sept. 8 on the French legal web site Legalis.