Does Anyone Have Any Thoughts on This?

woodiah · 03-27-2005, 09:59 AM

I hope Google gets on this immediately.

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Terror organizations are advancing their recruitment and public relations methods: Internet surfers who enter the word "Hamas" in Arabic in the Google search engine, will view, in addition to the search results, an AdWord message that links directly to the website of the organization' military faction Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades.
[...]
Google has automatic filters that prohibit the posting of links to “problematic” websites, such as gambling and sex websites, but as of now they can only identify English words.

Company Spokeswoman Debbie Frost said “we took care of the matter as soon as Ynet turned to us,” but Ynet has learned the advertisements have not been removed as of yet

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/1,7...064050,00.html

Eric · 03-27-2005, 07:00 PM

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Terror organizations are advancing their recruitment and public relations methods: Internet surfers who enter the word "Hamas" in Arabic in the Google search engine, will view, in addition to the search results, an AdWord message that links directly to the website of the organization' military faction Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades.
[...]
Google has automatic filters that prohibit the posting of links to “problematic” websites, such as gambling and sex websites, but as of now they can only identify English words.

Company Spokeswoman Debbie Frost said “we took care of the matter as soon as Ynet turned to us,” but Ynet has learned the advertisements have not been removed as of yet

The bolded text is entirely false. I've seen adsense links on the right of the search results about pornographic websites when I searched for things completely unrelated to sex. It's very disturbing. They have vulgar words in them. It's also quite sad that if a child was to search for anything as innocent as "boy" or "girl", they would be bound to get adsense ads about pornography.

gxsky · 03-31-2005, 12:37 AM

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Originally Posted by woodiah

I hope Google gets on this immediately.

Quote:

Terror organizations are advancing their recruitment and public relations methods: Internet surfers who enter the word "Hamas" in Arabic in the Google search engine, will view, in addition to the search results, an AdWord message that links directly to the website of the organization' military faction Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades.
[...]
Google has automatic filters that prohibit the posting of links to “problematic” websites, such as gambling and sex websites, but as of now they can only identify English words.

Company Spokeswoman Debbie Frost said “we took care of the matter as soon as Ynet turned to us,” but Ynet has learned the advertisements have not been removed as of yet

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/1,7...064050,00.html

Eric · 03-31-2005, 12:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gxsky

Quote:

Originally Posted by woodiah

I hope Google gets on this immediately.

Quote:

Terror organizations are advancing their recruitment and public relations methods: Internet surfers who enter the word "Hamas" in Arabic in the Google search engine, will view, in addition to the search results, an AdWord message that links directly to the website of the organization' military faction Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades.
[...]
Google has automatic filters that prohibit the posting of links to “problematic” websites, such as gambling and sex websites, but as of now they can only identify English words.

Company Spokeswoman Debbie Frost said “we took care of the matter as soon as Ynet turned to us,” but Ynet has learned the advertisements have not been removed as of yet

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/1,7...064050,00.html

What the hell? Why did you quote it for no reason?

Stuff2Do · 03-31-2005, 03:02 AM

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Originally Posted by Eric

Quote:

Originally Posted by gxsky

Quote:

Originally Posted by woodiah

I hope Google gets on this immediately.

Quote:

Terror organizations are advancing their recruitment and public relations methods: Internet surfers who enter the word "Hamas" in Arabic in the Google search engine, will view, in addition to the search results, an AdWord message that links directly to the website of the organization' military faction Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades.
[...]
Google has automatic filters that prohibit the posting of links to “problematic” websites, such as gambling and sex websites, but as of now they can only identify English words.

Company Spokeswoman Debbie Frost said “we took care of the matter as soon as Ynet turned to us,” but Ynet has learned the advertisements have not been removed as of yet

What the hell? Why did you quote it for no reason?
yeah lol, there was no point

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/1,7...064050,00.html

and if its an adsense ad, surely google can remove it straight away

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