What happened to “don’t be evil”?
February 12th, 2007
A friend of mine, who shall remain nameless, was banned from advertising on Google. His egregious infraction consisted of accidentally linking his ad to a redirect, because he’d moved his site from one domain to another. In the meantime, Google’s been supporting websites that sell pirated movies, going so far as to assign them an account representative to suggest better keywords. These fraudsters spent more than $800,000 on Google ads. That’s a real double standard: banning the small guy for an honest mistake while actively supporting the big spender in their illicit activity. I expect better from Google.
February 13th, 2007 at 6:28 pm
Wow! That is a double standard, and certainly doesn’t fit with their motto. I’d be pretty upset if I was the little guy mentioned in this posting.
March 14th, 2007 at 10:35 pm
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