Unfortunately if everyone had ultra control of their Google listings there would be chaos and that’s why they’ve done this.

Hi Sarah, if it is any consolation, I have had many phone calls with the same sort of tone on our sites. While legal costs are exceedingly high, we have found that 99% of complaints have no legal basis. As I believe this one also has no legal basis.

I refer to New Zealand’s defamation laws. a blog in its nature is classified as an independent publication (according to our legal advice) and is governed under the same laws as any news organization publishing the same content.

Basically if what you said was true, and any opinion placed in the article to be of your honest belief and clearly identifiable that it is your honest belief then you should be telling the lawyer to take a hike. I have read the blog you are referring too and found no legal ground for recourse so long as the content is true.

sounds like bully tactics to me.

keep up the blog tho, love reading it.

BTW had never seen NZLook before today…. but what a load of crap site, I can’t see any way their business model can survive or why anyone would pay money to be listed in their directory.
No POD at all! All the evidence I have found shows the value is in the data, not the service. If the people at NZLook had bothered to do some research they would have found that there are too many charging directories in NZ and without exception they are all a waste of money….

In my opinion any one who signs up to NZLook is getting scammed.

If this were the U.S. or Canada, I would say that her lawyer is just harassing you — because truth is an absolute defense against libel.

I had a look at “NZLook” and my thoughts were, “Not another business directory”.