Google sued by Brisbane businessman Jarrod Sierocki for defamatory forum posts TARGET: The search giant has been sued by a Brisbane businessman for defamatory results in search results. A BRISBANE businessman who claims his reputation was sullied online by a former colleague has become the first person in Queensland to sue internet giant Google for defamation. Jarrod Sierocki, 31, will seek damages of $2.6 million and a court order that Google remove search results that link his name to a string of character attacks on him in internet forums. His is one of a growing number of legal attempts worldwide to hold the most popular web search engine to account for what it highlights for readers. It comes months after a landmark libel suit in Victoria saw Google ordered to pay $200,000 damages over search results that linked a Melbourne businessman to a notorious drug lord. Mr Sierocki wrote to Google five times to complain about online slurs that harmed his professional standing and cost his business Insolvency Guardian income, he claims in documents lodged in the Brisbane Supreme Court. Google search results for his name link to posts claiming he is a "fraud" and a "sociopath" who had "ripped off or scammed" clients. In one post, he is accused of falsely stating that he was a barrister and forensic accountant, and had "freemason contacts" in the Australian Taxation Office. Mr Sierocki said he denied the allegations "entirely." The comments were carried by websites including controversial US-based forum the Ripoff Report, which does not edit or monitor user posts. Courts interstate and abroad have found Google can be held liable as a publisher of defamatory material. Mr Sierocki said his lawyers were yet to receive details of Google's defence, but would raise his original claim of $250,000 to $2.6 million and press for summary judgment. Google's Australian lawyers lodged notice of their intention to fight the claim last week, just hours after Mr Sierocki had applied for a default judgment. Mr Sierocki is separately suing website search engine expert Paul Klerck, a one-time Insolvency Guardian co-director, for defamation over alleged slurs made online and elsewhere. Milorad Trkulja was awarded $200,000 damages in the Melbourne Supreme Court in November after Google failed to prevent search results that placed his image beside the drug dealer. There was no truth to the claim that Mr Trkulja was associated with the drug lord. Google has previously been dragged to court in Queensland over slurs made by online commentators. In 2011, the Brisbane Supreme Court ordered Google to release details of those behind a website that labelled Gold Coast entrepreneur and self-help marketer Jamie McIntyre a ``thieving scumbag.