KinderStart, a search engine for parents of children up to 7 years old, has filed suit in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, disputing the verdict in its lawsuit against Google. KinderStart's lawsuit requested that Google remove its blockage of KinderStart from the search engine giant's index. U.S. District Court Judge Jeremy Fogel dismissed KinderStart's lawsuit.
Victor Goodman, KinderStart's spokesman, claimed Google's attorney stated in open court that KinderStart was "rife with porn," and this was the reason for the company's ban from the Google site. Goodman, however, did not believe Google's claim. "KinderStart since 2000 has provided a safe haven for parents and children from the pornography that infests the Internet and specifically the Google index," he said. "There are no pornographic links on KinderStart, and if it is ever spammed with unseemly content, it is removed the minute that we become aware of it."
Goodman said his company is incensed by the mega-size search engine's accusations, and the company has taken its plight to the media to publicize that Google instead is the porn merchant. "Please help us fight Google in the courts and in the court of public opinion so that we may stop Google's public display of pornographic links, ads, and images to our children and young adults," Goodman said. "We need dollars to fight this 'evil empire' that sees no wrong in corrupting our youth…it must be stopped!
"Google may well be the largest repository of pornographic information and sites in the history of man," Goodman continued. "Google is in the porn business big time and on an annual basis may generate more money from links and ads to and for pornography than any other company."
As part of its campaign, KinderStart has demanded that Google remove all pornography from its index.
