From Google on AdWords & Kiddie Porn Ad

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They should review sites before immediately accepting them.

No kidding! Bet they feel pretty stupid right now!!!

Or at least have some kind of filter. I didn't see the ad but I"m sure it had plenty of words that would've tipped them off.

yeah like "lolita 6-10 year old girls"?

sheesh...at least maybe this incident will force them to strongly re-consider their policies.

Am sure they do I posted the thread.... that someone posted here... Told'm someone can goto jail for this... And you have pissed a bunch of Adult Webmasters off...

Hmmm?

damn, as a ppc search ranking list site, we get our share of suspect submissions all the time. it's a pain in the ass, but we 'scrub' all our new submissions for legality and relevancy before they post. a few times things have slipped between the cracks, but you must be on guard for this shit - there's way too much at stake.

In Google's defense, their ad words are functioning something like an AOL message board, or a free host site, or any other unmoderated internet thing. They don't filter any of them, then they respond to complaints to fix problems.

If anyone is going to go to jail it would be the owner of the site, not Google.

Lensman doesn't screen every post on GFY, and someone could easily post a child porn advert here, and it would take him a few minutes or even hours to remove it.

That's the way the web is. I'm not saying it's right or wrong, I'm saying the law recognizes it and that's the way it is.

Google should probably consider screening certain words as a start and also consider using the same technology as TGP's, which scan the TGP pages themselves for banned words as well. Their system is new and they are still refining it. I think it's great we all emailed them about this, and they fixed it.

Google rocks!

This is the bullshit response I received from google when I registered a complaint about the child porn links they had up as paid key word advertisements.


Subj: Re: complaint [#442759]
Date: 5/20/2002 4:44:52 PM Eastern Daylight Time
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Sent from the Internet (Details)



Hello,

Thank you for your email. We understand that you saw an inappropriate advertisement on a Google results page. We have removed this ad and would like to explain to you how it appeared on Google.

The advertisement you saw was generated through our AdWords program. This program is designed to enable thousands of small business owners to quickly and efficiently generate traffic to their sites. The ads they create run on our site immediately. Our editorial staff reviews all ads to make sure that they are appropriate for our site. Since we show ads immediately, there is often a short period of time when the ad is running before being reviewed and approved by Google. Please note that we try to
keep this lag as short as possible.

Unfortunately, it seems you saw the advertisement before we had a chance to review it. We have since had the opportunity to review the ad and have deemed it inappropriate for our site.

Please accept our apologies. We thank you for your patience and
continuing support.

Please feel free to email us at [email protected] with further questions
or concerns.

Sincerely,
The Google AdWords Team

I mentioned this yesterday in the other thread; google does a heck of a good job scrubbing porn results (let alone kp) from their own search results for the term 'sex' on the first page results anyway http://www.google.com/search?q=sex . with any luck they'll take the head's up and flag a few terms as worthy of being checked out by a human before posting if they appear in their adwords submissions. 'Preteen lolitas' would seem like a good red alert flag to me http://jamess.boxx.ca/junk/google-loli.gif

cheers

As I said in my other post, if a $500 TGP script can identify and ban a lot of questionable content, you would think that Google would be able to figure out an even better solution.

not sure why you quoted my msg, guess I'll do the same

I agree 100%

cheers

What is the problem?
You reported a Child porn site and they removed the link ASAP.
Did you expect google to send you a medal?

They took down the link, but the reason I was bothered is that they allow child porn ad posting, and then regulate it after the fact. That is stupid. There is nothing to prevent someone from posting another identicle ad. They have no safeguards in place. It would make more sense to regulate first, and the problem won't exist.