A Melbourne man who won a defamation case against search engine giant Google has been awarded $200,000 in damages.Milorad Trkulja, also known as Michael, sued the multinational over images of him alongside a well-known underworld figure that appeared in its search results.
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Google has been ordered to pay a man $200,000 in damages for wrongly linking him to the Melbourne’s underworld.Michael Trkulja came to Australia from the former Yugoslavia in the 1960s and is an elder in the Serbian Orthodox Church in Springvale, in Melbourne’s south-eastern suburbs.In 2004, he was shot in the back while dining with his elderly mother at St Albans, in Melbourne’s western suburbs. The crime was never solved.
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