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Re:Ask HN: Google won't remove my site URL from random busin... by Aspos on Saturday June 20, 2020 @10:08AM (#23584015)
> redirect the URL to some place seedy

That business can potentially claim damages.

Re:Ask HN: Google won't remove my site URL from random busin... by pbhjpbhj on Saturday June 20, 2020 @10:31AM (#23584148)
They can claim them but I very much doubt they'd win in court - "we're infringing someone's Trademark and impersonating them on Google and they redirected traffic on their own website and that redirection is harming our ability to fraudulently profit from their trademark" ... kinda like suing someone you murdered because they made your knife messy.
Re:Ask HN: Google won't remove my site URL from random busin... by dylan604 on Saturday June 20, 2020 @11:35AM (#23584503)
The OP would still suffer expenses defending the messy knife claim in court. If the bad actor has deeper pockets, this would be just one more way for the bad guy to continue being a bad actor
Re:Ask HN: Google won't remove my site URL from random busin... by milankragujevic on Saturday June 20, 2020 @10:23AM (#23584112)
No they can't. I mean they can, but you can literally sue anyone for anything. Doesn't mean you're right or entitled to compensation of any kind, especially in this case. In fact, the owner of the website (OP) can sue the listing "owner" and Google and probably get something, but it's not proportional to the effort and wasted time + money.
Re:Ask HN: Google won't remove my site URL from random busin... by Cpoll on Saturday June 20, 2020 @06:12PM (#23587808)
I'm concerned that this is being downvoted, and that people in this thread are giving legal advice without any caveat or mention of country, state, etc.