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In October, Dell sued a group of domain registrars, alleging the companies bought more than 1,100 domain names with trademark-infringing characteristics, such as "dellbatterrogram.com" in order to put advertising links on the pages.
Google, whose AdSense advertising-placement program was used to monetize the domains, was ordered to hold in a special account the first $1 million collected on behalf of the defendants each month. The second $1 million that accrues in the account every month will be given to the defendants. If more than $2 million accrues in one month, the money is split between the defendants and the Google account.
Read more here...
[networkworld.com...]
A Google spokesman said Tuesday, however, that Web sites are supposed to have legitimate content in order to be accepted into AdSense.
So why do we see so many sites that contain nothing but ad links?
Maybe she forgot to add; once they are in they can do whatever they want.
Dell contends the defendants control some 1 million domain names, and believes they also have used at least 64 million other unique domain names.
But the Adsense program is supposed to detect TOS violations, e.g., single-page sites with only landing pages.
I think AdWords detects single-page sites and blocks you from using AdWords for them. But even if it doesn't, you know it's easy to do. Google crawls sites with Adsense so if it only finds one page...
Enforcement again is an issue? But with that kind of money each month, don't you think Google will look the other way?
Hey, you remember when Google backed away from gambling ads? It's a question of pressure to be ethical? Where's the pressure coming from here. Google has been exposed. But who will apply pressure?
p/g
So why do we see so many sites that contain nothing but ad links?
The Google spokesman said "supposed to have legitimate content" not "aren't allowed in unless they have legitimate content"
FarmBoy
