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Times Online: U.K. Soccer Pro Ashley Cole Questions Google on "Gay" Links

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on March 7, 2006 - 4:26am.

London - According to a report by The Times Online, lawyers representing U.K. soccer player Ashley Cole of the Arsenal Football Club have called on Google to explain why his name has been linked with the word "gay" in its Internet search results. Cole has filed a libel lawsuit against U.K. tabloids News of the World and The Sun over a number of stories speculating on the identities of a number of allegedly bisexual players in the English Premier League. While Cole was not named, a number of websites have claimed he is the person in the stories. When the name "Ashley Cole" is typed into Google, the search engine generates: "see results for: Ashley Cole: gay".