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Re:4Chan Founder Moot Sends Cease and Desist Letter to Start... by geuis on Monday November 19, 2012 @06:49PM (#4806988)
This is irrelevant. I just performed a search for the term 'moot' on Google and Bing. On both sites, I searched in Chrome, Safari, and Firefox. I also performed the searches in anonymous and non-anonymous modes in all browsers.

In every case, the wikipedia page for Chris Poole showed up within the top 5 results. His Twitter page and links to 4chan show up in the top 10 results in one order or another in all results as well.

I'm not taking sides either way, but the attorney's logged in status doesn't have any relevance in this instance.

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Re:4Chan Founder Moot Sends Cease and Desist Letter to Start... by ryanhuff on Monday November 19, 2012 @06:56PM (#4807017)
It may not in this case (as I did mention). My point was in reference to the general practice of attorney's using internet data sources that may provide personalized results. In the case of Google, the attorney's relationships and search history (researching 4chan, etc) may influence evidence submitted if not careful.
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