In examining the legal reasoning behind the Hong Kong case of Yeung v Google and German case of RS v Google, and comparing the two, this chapter argues that the orthodox
approach to fixing responsibility for defamation, based either on the established English
common law notion of publisher or innocent disseminator or the existing categories of passive host, conduit and caching in the relevant European Union Directive, is far from
adequate to address the challenges brought about by search engines and their Autocomplete function.