Digital Envoy Inc

Digital Envoy Inc. sued Google Inc. for misappropriation of trade secrets and unfair business practices, accusing the Mountain View, Calif.-based search provider of improperly using a technology designed to deliver search results to users based on their location. Timothy Kratz, a lawyer for Norcross, Ga.-based Digital Envoy, said its licensing deal allowed Google to use the "geographically targeted" technology only for regular search results on its own website. But the suit, filed in U.S.

Digital Envoy Inc. sued Google Inc. for misappropriation of trade secrets and unfair business practices, accusing the Mountain View, Calif.-based search provider of improperly using a technology designed to deliver search results to users based on their location. Timothy Kratz, a lawyer for Norcross, Ga.-based Digital Envoy, said its licensing deal allowed Google to use the "geographically targeted" technology only for regular search results on its own website. But the suit, filed in U.S.

Google Inc. had been such a secretive company that when it registered last week for an initial public offering, the crush of people trying to read the filing nearly crashed the Securities and Exchange Commission's website. Googlephiles found plenty of tantalizing nuggets in the hefty document -- the company's financial results, salaries of its top executives and the fact that it will lose the exclusive license to its search technology in 2011.