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Google AdWords And Ethics Issues
trystanu writes "The Washington Post reports that Google 'will stop accepting advertising from unlicensed pharmacies that have used the Internet to sell millions of doses of narcotics and prescription drugs without medical supervision', following both Yahoo and Microsoft's similar moves last month. The head of Google's U.S. AdWords branch maintains it's not just for the money but that they want their searchers to have the ads most relevant to what they're looking for. It's quite clear some advertisers are using the front door to spam Google rankings. Are some of the 100,000 advertisers now signed up for Adwords tarnishing Google's image at a delicate time?"
Notice how there are very few if any AdWords when searching for "goat" or "goatse".
....Porn ads... ( allow me to get my asbestos pants on real quick ) ... Sure, its fine an dandy for people to not be able to get prescription meds, but you can do a search for 'free movies" and get bombarded with adword ads for all the pr0n you can ever need. if their trying to look out for the good of its users, little timmy doesnt need to see "finding dildo" when he's trying to get "finding nemo"
I lost my concept of community when my community lost all concept of me.
I'm glad to see google join the ranks of wal-mart in protecting Americans from themselves. We Americans are too dumb to control our bodies and protect ourselves from perverted music. With the combined talents of big government and private industry we will live the virtuous lives as God intended.
There goes my sex life. Where am I going to buy cheap Viagra now?!
I claim first use of "Error No. 0B" - or "No. 0B error." It'll be the new ID 10T!
who cares, we know who is who's bitch around here.
The White House is a very convenient location from which to operate a bid-rigging racket.
Graciously yours,
Richard B. Cheney, President-Vice
The Canadian government isn't happy about the country being given a bad name
I think we gave up on that when we called Bush a moron.
A few weeks ago when Rush Limbaugh was in the news for his addiction to prescription painkillers, I remember reading a story on the Web (MSNBC maybe?) about his medication of choice, Oxycontin. It was talking about the dangers of unregulated use and so forth...pretty standard health reporting stuff.
The funny thing is that at the bottom of the article was a couple of google search word ads (to be fair, I'm not sure it was actually Google, but same concept) offering the chance to buy the drug the article had just warned us about. Talk about your mixed messages!
Four fifths of all our troubles in this life would disappear if we would just sit down and keep still. -C. Coolidge