Google blocked several Belgian newspapers from its Web search results in what the papers called retaliation over a copyright infringement lawsuit.

Google said an order issued in the case required it to exclude the newspapers' websites.

Google searches late Friday showed that the websites of the newspapers who sued Google, who were members of an organization called Copiepresse- a Belgian, French-language newspaper copyright management company - did not appear in search results, as they have in the past.

Source: Times of India