Bettina Wulff, wife of former German president Christian Wulff, sued Google for infringing her personal rights by associating her name with terms such as 'escort', 'prostitute' and 'red light district'.

Wulff sued Google at Hamburg's Regional Court, claiming she had never worked as a prostitute or escort and accusing the search engine company's Autocomplete search prediction function of 43 unfair word combinations.

Google responded by saying Autocomplete merely reflects what others are already searching for online. 

Wulff had spent years defending her reputation against these rumours and had successfully issued 34 cease-and-desist orders.