UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. GOOGLE LLC - Affidavit outlines risks of exposing its search index, rankings, and live results
Google argues that exposing spam scores, even indirectly, would weaken its ability to fight webspam.
Effective spam fighting depends on secrecy, Reid stressed:
“Fighting spam depends on obscurity, as external knowledge of spam-fighting mechanisms or signals eliminates the value of those mechanisms and signals.”
This document is an affidavit filed by Elizabeth Reid in the case of UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. GOOGLE LLC. The affidavit is part of a motion to stay a defendant's motion for a partial stay pending appeal by Google LLC. The document was entered on January 16th, 2026, and includes attachments such as a memorandum in support of the motion, the affidavit of Elizabeth Reid, the affidavit of Jesse Adkins, and the text of a proposed order.
0 Comments