OSzilla Microsoft, Searchzilla Google and runner-up Yahoo received writs slapping them on their wrists for allegedly running ads on their sites for selecting the sex of unborn children.

India's Supreme Court sent out notices to the three stooges after a guy called Sabu Mathew George petitioned the court, saying that the companies were deliberately targeting people in India with sex selection ads. According to Mr. George, the companies were making money by breaking the law.

Ads for sex selection services are illegal in India. India has a large problem with unwanted infant or unborn girls, which may be aborted. According to George, a social activist, 900,000 girls die each year by means of feticide. George added that advertisers had gone online, after activists had successfully campaigned to get rid of such adds in old-fashioned magazines and newspapers.

George also filed a complaint against the Indian Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, as well as the Ministry of Communications and IT. Apparently he had previously notified the ministries of advertisers running illegal ads over the ad platforms of the three US companies, yet the ministries ignored them and twiddled their thumbs. X