Facebook nemesis sues Google
After claiming he invented Facebook, Aaron Greenspan now says that he has successfully sued Google.
At a Northern Calfornia court earlier this week, Mark Zuckerberg's ex-Harvard classmate won $761 from the world's largest ad broker.
Greenspan made headlines back in the fall of 2007 and the spring 2008 after claiming that he created Facebook at Harvard - not Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and not the founders of ConnectU, who recently won a $60 million settlement in suing Zuckerberg and co. for allegedly copying their idea.
One of those Greenspan headlines appeared on The Register. And after reading this headline, Greenspan declined to speak with us about his Google suit. But he details his Google kerfuffle in a recent piece on The Huffington Post.
Famously, Greenspan has written a tome entitled Authoritas: One student's Harvard admissions and the founding of the Facebook era in which he claims to set the Zuckerberg record straight. He hoped to advertise the book via Google search ads. But Google wouldn't let him post ads against searches that included the word Facebook. Facebook, Google told him, is a trademark registered to Facebook.
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