Then I can't have my own website where if someone enters the text "playboy" in the field, a non-Playboy ad pops up in the next page.
Ridiculous!
This issue has nothing to do with common words, trademarks, or paid advertising. It's about Google's right to do whatever they want with their ads. If I, the user of google.com want links to porn sites by typing "playboy" or "donkeyass" or "aslkdjaslkdj" or whatever, and legit porn sites want to *pay* google to put their ads up, and google wants to do the dance between me and porn sites, then fuck it we should all be able to.
It *may* be wrong for google to omit playboy(tm) from the search results because other porn sites payed google to do so, but i'm not too sure that's illegal either.
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Then I can't have my own website where if someone enters the text "playboy" in the field, a non-Playboy ad pops up in the next page.
Ridiculous!
This issue has nothing to do with common words, trademarks, or paid advertising. It's about Google's right to do whatever they want with their ads. If I, the user of google.com want links to porn sites by typing "playboy" or "donkeyass" or "aslkdjaslkdj" or whatever, and legit porn sites want to *pay* google to put their ads up, and google wants to do the dance between me and porn sites, then fuck it we should all be able to.
It *may* be wrong for google to omit playboy(tm) from the search results because other porn sites payed google to do so, but i'm not too sure that's illegal either.