Google and CEO Eric Schmidt have been found guilty in Paris on charges of defamation because Google suggested search terms including "rapist" and "satanist" when a query was done for the plaintiff's name.

Google was ordered to pay one euro in damages, plus 5,000 euros toward Mr. X's legal bills, and avoid repeating the offense in the future. Google will appeal the ruling.

"All of the queries shown in Autocomplete have been typed previously by other Google users," said company spokeswoman Anne-Gabrielle Dauba-Pantanacce "These searches are algorithmically determined based on a number of purely objective factors, including popularity of search terms."

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