Aussies Sue Over Misleading Google Ads

Posted by kdawson on Thursday July 12, 2007 @05:43AM from the common-carrier-or-policeman dept.

eldavojohn writes "Google is the target of another lawsuit — this time over whether or not they are responsible for the content that advertisers put up on their site. The case involves an instance where Google displayed ads for two automotive dealerships in Australia, yet the links led users to the site of a commercial rival. The company that placed the ads in 2005 avoided a lawsuit by settling with Australian regulators, who are now going after Google for not policing the ads. If this suit holds up it will set a precedent for very heavy ad monitoring responsibility on the part of all search engines, not just Google."

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Did you not notice? by Anonymous Coward · 2007-07-12 07:57 · Score: 0, Troll

Australia has consciously and deliberately been modeling itself on the United States of America for a very long time, in fact right from the beginning almost.

Every aspect of our society and culture is based on how we think it is and is done in the US.

We don't want to be Australians. To us, Aussies have embarrassing accents and are the descendents of English and Irish convicts. Nothing happens in Australia and nobody notices us. We want to be sophisticated Americans.

That's why we try so hard to make people think we are Americans downunder.

John Howard for first President of the United Staes of Australia.