From a legal perspective — meaning from the court’s point of view — Google is fully responsible for whatever appears on its own interface. Legally, this means Google is treated as if it agrees with the content that its algorithms highlight, including featured snippets. Courts punish Google precisely because when the company displays a text in a prominent box on its own surface, it behaves toward the outside world as if that text were Google’s own statement. The law does not accept the excuse of “it was just a machine.” If Google puts something in its shop window, then legally it belongs to Google.
From a technical perspective — meaning according to Google’s engineers — they absolutely do not agree with me. If a Google PR manager or executive looked at my screenshots, they would hold their head in their hands, because my post exposes their system. Google’s algorithms do not evaluate truth or opinion; they only measure relevance and popularity — at least that’s what Google would claim. But this is exactly where the court ruling comes in: it states that Google is responsible for whatever appears on its own surface, and it must be treated as if the content were Google’s own statement.
Meanwhile, this snippet hurts Google precisely because their own algorithm forces them to display my truth on their own interface, even though internally they would strongly object to it. And here is the key point: the deletion really is not deletion. I have proven this technically, and Google’s own systems have confirmed it — even if Google would never admit it publicly.
If a company releases a product or a system to the market, it cannot behave like a faulty machine where they simply shrug and say, “sorry, it malfunctioned.” For years, Google hid behind exactly this excuse:
“This is just an automated algorithm, we can’t help it if it outputs something stupid or inconvenient.”
Courts, however — for the same reasons I am explaining — have had enough of this, and they have declared:
There is no escape: if you operate the system and profit from it, then it is your responsibility when it malfunctions.
And I will absolutely take legal action, because in my opinion Google has no chance against me — the amount of evidence against them is overwhelming.
Here is the official developer documentation about featured snippets:
https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/featured-snippets
