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This from The Register: a French court, ruling that Google's keyword advertising service infringes the merchandise score of Le Meridien Hotels, ordered Google.fr to halt using the merchandise score to trigger advertisements for Le Meridien's competitors. The gauge ordered Google to pay all courtroom fees addition a €2000 ($2,595) fine. The Tribunal de Grande Instance de Nanterre said that Google must halt linking challenger ads to searches for Le Meridien merchandise score items too Le Meridien brands. If Google fails to withdraw offending advertising links inside 72 hours of beingness notified of a listing it faces a daily fine of €150 ($195). Google relies on adword sales for merely about 98 per cent of its income. Not all of this is theme on challenger searches, however. Still, Google says it volition appeal against this decision, saying: "We volition maintain to defend against this suit, which nosotros believe is without merit". The French court's determinati...