Following on from yesterday’s post, @davidstarkoff points out that:
The hearing of the appeal has been fixed for 11 September 2012.
Apparently, back on 25 June the High Court granted Google special leave to appeal from the Full Federal Court’s ruling that Google is liable for the misleading ads placed by advertisers.
Maybe the internet will be able to keep working in Australia after all.
Austlii is only up to 20 June, at the time of posting.
Lid dip “Law Geek Down Under“
The Annual Meeting of the American Economics Association tries to work out how Google works or how AdWords changed the world:
A tidbit:
During the question-and-answer period, a man wearing a camel-colored corduroy blazer raises his hand. “Let me understand this,” he begins, half skeptical, half unsure. “You say that an auction happens every time a search takes place? That would mean millions of times a day!”
Varian smiles. “Millions,” he says, “is actually quite an understatement.”
Lid dip @joshgans
