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Google Bans Ads For Essay-Writing Services

Posted by kdawson on from the write-it-yourself dept.

llamapalooza writes "Google announced that it will ban essay writing firms from advertising on their site. (The prevalence of cheating on campuses has been discussed here before.) While universities have welcomed the move, the affected firms are claiming it will 'punish legitimate businesses.' Google has specifically banned 'academic paper-writing services and the sale of pre-written essays, theses, and dissertations,' which now join other items on the banned list such as tobacco, drugs, weapons, and prostitution."

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  1. Re:Prostitution? by yahooadam · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    i thought having one of these services used was against exam board rules any ?

    i know where i go to school they put your essay into a computer and that scans it and determines a plagiarism %

    if the % is too high, your paper will be checked out

    Aren't these services going to be violating the same rules ? therefore, the company's shouldn't really exist because anyone who uses them will probably get disqualified from their grade anyway ....
    So Google banning them isn't the end of the world because the company's shouldn't exist because you should be able to use them