French Court Orders Google to Stop Competing Ad Displays

charleste writes "NPR is reporting that a French court has ordered Google to stop displaying ads when users search for competitors (e.g. if you search for Louis Vuitton, no more ads for Dior). If this holds up, wouldn't this affect most business models for free web tools?" CNET also has details , and information about previous cases.

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French suck!

[Anonymous Coward]

France should be banned from the internet, the French bastards suck anyways!

Re:French suck!

[Anonymous Coward]

I'll second that.

"Going to war without France is like going hunting without a set an accordion. Either way, you leave behind a lot of noisy baggage."

It's the French

[Dancin_Santa]

They don't believe in Free Speech (can't sell anti-French WWII memorabilia), they don't believe in shaving for women (Mila Jovovich), and they don't believe in using perfectly good words (the requiring that all computer terms be translated into appropriate French words).

Who gives a damn what those cheese-eating surrender monkeys "order"?

Maybe one day they can join the rest of the civilized world in the post-Dark Ages for a change.

Re:It's the French

[Frank T. Lofaro Jr.]

The French actually built a subway?

Was it built for transportation reasons or as a place to hide when invaded?

Re:It's the French

[Anonymous Coward]

But the are not all obese

Yes, but skinny and reeking of tobacco is just as unpleasant.

they don't invade foreign country for oil

Rather, they sell arms, in violation of UN resolutions, to a certain country that was in violation of its surrender terms.

the know where their country is on a map

Which isn't difficult. Anywhere they point to in Europe can be considered to have been annexed by some country that conquered the French.

they don't elect moron as president

No, they elect a moron as Prime Minister. Wait. Maybe they elect the morons who elect the moron Prime Minister.

they don't beleive cream cheese is classy

No, but mold. That's classy.

As for joining the "post-Dark Ages", did you ever notice that nobody want to join it (except maybe britains). Maybe you are leaving in the dark age and the rest of the word is moving forward bulding a better word instead of destroying it.

Maybe you ought to realize that the Americans and British aren't the only ones that think your little pissant country is a joke. While the rest of the world is moving forward, you still try to hold on to the glory of centuries past. While the world tries to enforce international law, you thumb your nose and sell weapons to a country under UN sanctions.

Alright. Thats it.

[GeneralEmergency]

I want the French off this planet.

I simply cannot believe that the birthplace of 'Liberty' has de-evolved into a mewling cesspool of cry-baby protectionists and nutball bureaucrats!

Why can they not see how absurd they have become?

huge rubber shaft of hardcore slashdot dupe action

[Anonymous Coward]

do not disturb
see reception for a key

Score -3, brainwashed american

[Anonymous Coward]

It's amazing how easy it is to manipulate the general public through the media isn't it?

Have you ever been to France? Lived like the French do? Had the same experiances?

The French do a lot of things right and have a wealth of exeperiance to draw on, don't dismiss them out of hand becuase they are "French" - how racist is that!

Re:Slashdupe

[tomhudson]

Instead of posting a dupe, why don't they cover news for nerds, stuff that matters, like the appointment of Russ Nelson to the presidency of OSI (think "Hallowe'en Docs") and then him making this inflmmatory post:

The Angry Economist : blacks-are-lazy.html
The economist is here, and boy is he pissed.

Mon, 07 Feb 2005

Blacks are lazy

Black people are lazy in that they work less hard than whites. Not only that, but they are rational to be lazy! After black slaves were freed, they worked less. The value of their leisure time (highly valued after a lifetime of slavery) exceeded the pay from their work. Also, ongoing American racism has caused blacks to be paid less than whites. If everything else is the same, a black person is less likely to want to work as hard as a white person. I think that is what led people into the mistaken idea that blacks are lazy--as a characteristic of being black. They're not; it's an economically-ignorant idea to say that they are. They're just rationally valuing their leisure time at the same rate as whites, getting paid less for the same work, and deciding to work less because of it.

Actually, come to think about it, we had about 150 years of black slavery, and it hasn't even been 150 years since the Civil War. It wouldn't surprise me to find that blacks are still taught to value their leisure time more highly than whites. When their forebears were slaves, their leisure time was very precious to them. Cultures change slowly.

This is stuff that matters. This affects the credibility of the OS movement. See the ongoing discussion here and here

He has since removed the offending article, claiming it was "badly written". I've challenged him to show how it could be misconstrued as anything other than race-baiting.

So far, all he's offered is to discuss it in email, even though his original post was public.

- Posted because there are some times when you just have to stand up and be counted.

Re:Slashdupe

[Anonymous Coward]

Bullshit. Niggers are lazy because they know they can be and no one will bitch about it. If a nigger get fired because of being lazy all he as to do is scream racism and the world will pat him on his burly head. They will hand him a big fat check for being the poor down troden blackman being kept down by the evil White man.

You ever tried to fire a nigger? It's almost impossible. But a nigger can fire a White man anytime he wants to for any reason. Why, because only the White man can be racist, the nigger can't be.

Yeah, I'm Southern and a racist SOB that doesn't mean I'm not right. I don't like wetbacks ether but at least they know the value of a hard days work, well most of them.

Re:Self-policing (was: Re:And who)

[bixler99]

Obviously you were asleep in your marketing classes. Contrary to popular opinion, marketing's core object involves EDUCATING the user about the *positive* features and benefits of a given product. Granted, advertising is used to emphasize only the positive attributes of a given product, but it's ignorant to recognize that the purpose of advertising is not to mislead or somehow encourage people to make uninformed opinions.

Re:fudge the french

[MoFoQ]

true...but I don't want to fuck french....I'd rather cover them with fudge....or tar...and feathers.

why do u think the french are masters in perfume/cologne making?