The search engine giant Google inc is embroiled in a lawsuit over personal photos in a website ;SEXY EXECUTIVES'which the search engine hosts on blogspot blogger platiform The common traits of corporate executive headshots may be easy to poke fun at: a goofy smile, business suit, monotone backdrop and chest-to-head sizing. But after a parody website published a photo and snarky comments of a marketing executive, she and her company filed suit against Google, which offers the hosting services for the website.

Ann Dieleman, senior vice president and chief marketing officer of ARAG North America Inc., a legal and financial services provider based in Des Moines, Iowa, found her corporate photo was posted on a small blog site called Sexyexecs.blogspot.com, which has been hosted by Google's blogspot blogging service since Dec. 2009.

The satirical site, which is managed by an unknown party, has the words, "Sexy Executives: Corporate photography" at the top. Company headshots of executives--lifted from the PR pages of company websites--are periodically published with humorous descriptions and critical comments about the person's appearance. Readers are then invited to post their own comments.

Dieleman and ARAG are now suing Google after the tech giant refused to take down her copyrighted photo.

Dieleman said her company followed the "appropriate procedures to remove the content, however, after continued back and forth, it was time to assert my legal rights."