Google misleads on sponsored links

[rpm]

http://mybroadband.co.za/news/General/1270.html

 

[Syndyre]

Maybe a bit dodgy but it was done by the advertisers more than Google. As long as they keep their advertising and search results separate I don't really care.

 

[sar]

Very dodgy, one might care a bit more about this if they are advertising on google for thousands of rands because lot of fraud goes undetected and advertisers pay for most of the fraud in the end.

 

[kilo39]

Google clearly differentiates between its organic and sponsored links.

However, the links fed through to the website of a rival to the dealerships, the classifieds magazine “Trading Post", which competes with them for automotive sales.

Google has a TOS for taking advertising. This clearly contravenes it. Nothing to do with google (they cannot be expected to check every link and assume SOME honesty on the part of advertisers.)

Yes. An attack on google instead of the offending company.

 

[Syndyre]

Google clearly differentiates between its organic and sponsored links.

Google has a TOS for taking advertising. This clearly contravenes it. Nothing to do with google (they cannot be expected to check every link and assume SOME honesty on the part of advertisers.)

Yes. An attack on google instead of the offending company.

Exactly.

 

[kilo39]

Exactly.

The perfidious tentacles are everywhere (and I notice this is an australian lawsuit.)

In what it says is a world-first action, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) alleges Google failed to distinguish between paid advertisements and “organic” results generated by the search engine.