The Full Court of the Supreme Court of South Australia upheld the lower court's decision finding Google liable as a secondary publisher of defamatory information for hyperlinks and snippets that came up in response to search queries. The Court reasoned that even though Google did not write the material itself, it facilitated publication by designing the programme which authored the words of the snippet paragraph and, because it was on notice that the material was defamatory and refused to remove the information, it could not be found to have innocently circulated the information. It was therefore liable under Australian law as a secondary publisher of defamatory material.