Dr Janice Duffy has been pursuing Google for redress for many years in her quest to hold Google accountable for its refusal to proactively de-index defamatory material posted on the notorious site RipoffReport.com. In a recent decision, DUFFY v GOOGLE LLC [2023] SASC 13 (3 February 2023), she finally prevailed in her defamation claim against Google. In ruling for her, an Australian court confirmed that search engines can be liable for defamation when they fail to de-index snippets that are defamatory, or when snippets entice or encourage searchers to access links that are defamatory.…