Google vs Tom Delay
Posted by Moonage on 03 May 2005 | Tagged as: National Politics
This is a hoot. First RightMarch.com noticed this:
Well, we saw that if you typed in "Tom DeLay", all of the ads were ANTI-DeLay ads. So, we took the time and spent the money so that our PRO-DeLay ad would show up too — first.
So, they did what anyone would do:
So, we copied one of the ads posted by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee almost WORD FOR WORD, but changed "Tom DeLay" (the GOP leader) to "Nancy Pelosi" (the Democrat leader, who violated ethics rules much worse than what DeLay is accused of).
That’s all we did — we took the LIBERAL ad, and changed the words to make it a CONSERVATIVE ad.
Pretty clever I thought. And, this is the response they got from Google:
"Google policy does not permit ad text that advocates against an individual, group or organization."
What a RIOT!
I decided to test their accusation. I ran a search on my own webpage using Google. These are the ads google ran at the top of the page:
Those first two sure look like "ad text that advocates against an individual".
Whatsayou Google?
If this bugs you as much as it does me, contact Google at:
Google Inc.
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View CA 94043
phone: 650-253-0000
fax: 650-253-0001
Questions on "Ad Approvals" - Click Here
Media Contacts:
Google Media Hotline 650-930-3555 or
press@google.com
Corporate PR
David Krane
650-623-4096
david@google.com
Corporate PR
Steve Langdon
650-623-4950
slangdon@google.com
Advertising PR
Michael Mayzel
650-623-4565
mmayzel@google.com
Technology PR
Nathan Tyler
650-623-4311
nate@google.com
Consumer PR
Eileen Rodriguez
650-623-4235
eileen@google.com
Thanks to Little Green Footballs and especially RightMarch.
From
Google.blognews:
Asked about the nearly identical ads, Mayzel ( of Google ) said, "Both ads
were taken down. Any assertion to the contrary is false."
The problem was not the ads per se, but the practice. It hasn’t
stopped. The blog’s suggestion that Google not mess with political ads is
dead on.
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