French court convicts Google CEO Eric Schmidt of defamation

Court's jurisdiction on Cyber-issues have been quite a head spin for the past few years, because the government intended to keep the fast-pace free flow of public communications. Nevertheless, one French man claimed that when a person Googled his name,the terms "rapist" and "satanist" came up in Google's Suggest feature. This does not bode well for his job prospects. As a result, he contacted Google to have the terms disassociated with his name, but that was to no avail. As a result, Google and its CEO, Eric Schmidt, have been convicted for defamation under the French court's jurisdiction. The court's ruled that the search engine's linking his name to such words was defamatory and fined Google €1 settlement plus €5,000 for the man's court cost.