Aussie court clears Google in deceptive ad case

Published February 6, 2013 6:12am ET



SYDNEY (AP) — Australia’s highest court on Wednesday threw out a ruling against Google Inc. that had found the Internet giant guilty of breaching trade law by hosting deceptive advertisements.

The High Court’s decision overturned a federal court ruling from April that Google had engaged in misleading or deceptive conduct with four ads that appeared on its Google Australia website. The advertisers used the names of competitors as keywords to trigger their own ads appearing.

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