Leading search engines, including Google and Yahoo!, lost a round in court this week when a federal judge in Texarkana, Arkansas ruled that a click- fraud lawsuit belonged in state court. The
complainant, Lane's Gifts and Collectibles, originally filed the matter in an Arkansas state court in February; Lane's Gifts also is seeking class action status. The search engines asked the federal
court to take jurisdiction over the case but, on Monday, a federal judge ordered the matter returned to state court.
-- Wendy Davis