Google and blogger sued by curry fish head restaurant

KOTA KINABALU: Jothys Sdn Bhd director Tharumaraj Sivaperumal of Jothy's Fish Head Curry Restaurant which is recommended by Lonely Planet, is suing a blogger and Google for defamation.

Naming blogger Poh Huai Bin as the first defendant and California-based Google Inc as the second defendant, he has filed a RM6mil civil suit at the Kota Kinabalu High Court,

The suit filed on Monday is over allegedly defamatory statements made about Jothy's Fish Head Curry Restaurant here which was posted in May last year by Poh, who is originally from Sibu, Sarawak and now resides in Kuala Lumpur.

The company claimed that the alleged defamatory statements published by both defendants would be injurious to its business.

Tharumaraj said he felt very let down when the blogger demeaned his fish head curry and banana leaf restaurant and urged the people to "avoid it like a bad case of herpes".

On why he decided to sue Google, he said if one used Yahoo or other search engines, the offending blog does not appear immediately but in Google, it would show up first.

As a result of the defendants' action, Tharumaraj claimed he suffered losses and damages and his restaurant's reputation had been affected, both locally and internationally.

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