Google has had a bit of its arrogance forced from it today. In the face of a costly lawsuit the on-line giant has made a reversal of its standing rule saying that it now will allow anti-abortion ads to run in its advertisement services.Posted on 09/18/2008 8:05:21 AM PDT by Mobile Vulgus
Google has had a bit of its arrogance forced from it today. In the face of a costly lawsuit the on-line giant has made a reversal of its standing rule saying that it now will allow anti-abortion ads to run in its advertisement services.
Until now, Google has imposed its own political agenda by disallowing any ad to be taken out by anti-abortion advocates while allowing all ads for abortion pushers to go through without question. Google has, however, reversed that decision in the face of a legal challenge that its policy breached the Equalities Act of 2006 in the USA.
Google spokesmen said that they reconsidered this policy to create "a level playing field" and to enable "religious associations to place ads on abortion in a factual way."...
Read the rest at Publiusforum.com...
Ah geez. You nearly gave me a heart attack. (Joking but you never know in ths environment). Using the word “folds” next to a company’s name these days not a good idea. “Google caves” is a more to the point without fear anyone’s retirement fund is totally in the hole.
Oh, you mean Google. Isn’t that the company that cooperated with the Communist Chinese in censoring speech and hunting down political agitators?
Sorry but this is not a good thing
Google is a private company and they should be able to put/reject whatever ads they like. If you don't like it, don't use them and/or boycott their sponsers and use Yahoo or something else.
If the pro-life people can force Google to do this, the anti-life can do the same with them or someone else.
I agree. And I am completely pro-life.
If Google could have been persuaded via boycotts or an email campaign, etc... then *that* would have been a good thing. The threat of lawsuit? Not so good.
Pro-lifers could have just taken their business elsewhere. I do not use a single Google service (gmail, etc..) other than their search engine. And I never click on ads. I make sure to type in the URL of the company in the ad myself so they do not get a click-through.
Google is more Evil than Microsoft. Mostly because they (like Obama) like to flaunt that they are not. Even though they are.
Arrogant too. I am surprised the Google logo doesn’t have the Obama O for the ‘o’ characters.
If Obama wins, I wouldn’t be surprised to see that happen actually.
The following result returns:
Morning After PillSite asserts that "morning after" emergency contraception is just another abortion approach that kills a human life.
www.morningafterpill.org/ - 6k -
The description displayed for the entry appears nowhere on the site. It's an manually created comment used in lieu of text captured from the www.morningafterpill.org site's actual home page.
I haven't noticed that being done with any other sites.
It doesn't have to. The ad is distinct from the site. Go to Google's AdWords site for more information.
“Anti-Abortion”
You mean Pro-Life?
anti-abortion = pro-life
pro-choice = pro-abortion
That's not an ad. It's a result.
Try it.
Well, then you are comparing apples to oranges. The article is talking about Google’s paid ads not its search results. The paid ads appear in the shaded section at the top and on the right side of the results page.
Non sequitur. Unequal treatment by the search engine is unequal treatment by the search engine
apples vs. oranges
Google is very corrupt and needs to be broken up.
They will never accept free speech.
“.and use Yahoo or something else. “
They aligned with Yahoo and control over 90% of all SERPS.
Google crashed United Airlines stocks earlier this month as well.
Would you mind if exxon controlled 90% of gasoline?
Non sequitur stacked on top of non sequitur. You falsely claimed that a search engine result was an Adwords display and now you can’t bring yourself to admit your error.
Google has had a bit of its arrogance forced from it today. In the face of a costly lawsuit the on-line giant has made a reversal of its standing rule saying that it now will allow anti-abortion ads to run in its advertisement services.Until now, Google has imposed its own political agenda by disallowing any ad to be taken out by anti-abortion advocates while allowing all ads for abortion pushers to go through without question. Google has, however, reversed that decision in the face of a legal challenge that its policy breached the Equalities Act of 2006 in the USA.
You are the one doing a non sequitur. Everyone else is talking about advertising on Google and you're talking about search results. They are separate, distinct areas of Google's operations. You apparently can't comprehend the difference. Your saying they are the same does not make it so.
A distinction without a difference on your part.
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