Google loses Canadian Groovle domain name claim

A Canadian company behind a search engine called Groovle.com has won a case filed against it by online search giant Google. Google said the domain name used by the small business, 207 Media, was too similar to its own, but mediators the National Arbitration Forum disagreed. In the complaint, Google asked for the judges to rule that 207 Media transfer the domain name over to it. But three judges appointed by the forum refused the request. They said the name was not similar enough to confuse people and the word 'groovle' was more closely linked to "groovy" or "groove" rather than Google.

Legitimate interest

The judges also refused to examine other claims made by Google, including that the Canadian business had no "legitimate" interest in the domain name and had registered it in "bad faith". The entrepreneurs behind Groovle.com said they had used the site for more than two-and-a-half years without any complaints by Google. The site is powered by Google but describes itself as a way for users to create a customised internet homepage. People can upload personal images onto the site and then go on to search the web from that page. The National Arbitration Forum is an agency, approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, to sort out domain name disputes. It is only the second time out of 65 that a complaint made by Google against companies about domain names has been rejected. In 2004, Richard Wolfe, the owner of froogles.com managed to persuade an arbitration panel his site could not be confused with Google.com. (my view)- Like"Disney"or"Kraft" Google has grown to be a bigger and more greedier company then stamps on smaller and other firms to companies and totally wants to RULE the roost so to speak and wants to OWN everything and charge MORE for THEIR crappier produc. HOW DOES IT FEEL YOU MOTHER FUCKERS TO NOT WIN AND CRUSH A COMPANY? LOL,YOUR BASTARDS ARE GETTING WAY TO GREEDY

'Grisly' Brittany Murphy artwork withdrawn

-Abandoned, one of Murphy's last films, is expected to be released in 2010- Promotional artwork for a DVD release showing late actress Brittany Murphy lying apparently lifeless in a bathtub has been pulled by a US rental chain. Redbox said it planned to complete the removal of DVD covers and posters from its outlets by 1 January. The artwork promotes Deadline, a direct to DVD title in which Murphy played a writer staying in a haunted house. A private funeral service is expected to be held later at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Los Angeles.

'On her game'

It is the same cemetery where singer Michael Jackson was laid to rest earlier this year. Murphy, 32, was pronounced dead at Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre after collapsing in the bathroom of her Hollywood home on Sunday. The county coroner's office is awaiting the results of toxicology and tissue tests before releasing an official cause of death. Best known for her roles in Clueless and 8 Mile, Murphy completed a number of films this year that are currently awaiting release. The director of one, a thriller called Abandoned, said she was delightful to work with and "was on her game". "She was such a pro and so good at her craft that she could turn it on and off as necessary," said Michael Feifer.