It's a bad week for the internet. Not only has the official RickRoll been killed but Google's having a messy week. Italian Google Execs including the senier vide president and chief legal officer, former chief financial officer, and global privacy counsel, have been found guilty following the video posting to Google of four youths bullying a child with Downs Syndrome. This has raised a number of problems with blame - none of the sued employees were involving in the making or uploading of the video to Google Vids, but are seen as at fault.

David Drummond, senior v-p and chief legal officer summarised this problem: “If individuals like myself and my Google colleagues who had nothing to do with the harassing incident, its filming or its uploading onto Google Video can be held criminally liable solely by virtue of our position at Google, every employee of any internet hosting service faces similar liability.”

In theory similar online problems may follow the same suit as this case: liability may be with video hosting employees rather than individuals, which could create a serious storm of problems in the future.

Not only this, but in Europe, the company's suffering an AntiTrust Investigation over the search algorithm. Three European companies including UK comparison sites Foundem and French legal directory ejustic.fr have been making noise over the notable lower ranking of their sites in search engines as they are seen to possibly represent a threat to Google's ad revenue. This has happened before in the US with company Double Click, who interestingly won their case. Curiously - and quite interestingly - the third site to complain is owned by Microsoft, who have only recently been forced to introduce browser choice on their machines. Today the European Commission continues their investigation.