A court has ruled that a Hong Kong tycoon can sue Google over its autocomplete results suggesting he has links to organized crime, according to Reuters.

In a judgment released Wednesday, the court dismissed the Internet search giant's objections to tycoon Albert Yeung's defamation lawsuit, Reuters reported.

Yeung filed the lawsuit after searches in both English and Chinese for Albert Yeung Sau-shing, the founder and chairman of Hong Kong-based conglomerate Emperor Group, will automatically suggest phrases related to organized crime using Google's 'autocomplete' function, according to Reuters.

The billionaire's business empire includes an entertainment company that produces films and manages some of the city's biggest celebrities, Reuters reported. He argues that his reputation has been "gravely injured" and wants compensation.

Judge Marlene Ng disagreed with Google's lawyers, who argued Yeung was better off asking the websites where the defamatory information was published to remove it, according to Reuters. She said Google had the ability to censor material.

"There is a good arguable case that Google Inc is the publisher of the Words and liable for their publication," said Marlene Ng in her ruling, Reuters reported.

"Any risk of misinformation can spread easily as users forage in the web. The art is to find the comfortable equilibrium in between," she said in her ruling, Reuters reported.

Google frequently finds itself embroiled in legal issues over what results are shown by its search engine, according to Reuters

Earlier this year, the European Union's top court ruled that Google and other search engines must respond to requests seeking removal of links to personal information, according to Reuters.

Last year, a German court ruled in favor of a nutritional supplements company and its owner who sued Google to remove autocomplete terms suggesting links to Scientology and fraud, Reuters reported.