On the Google website, the biggest search engine in the World, you have the possibility to advertise your products somewhere on the website. A company wanting to do so has to pay a price to Google every time someone clicks on the advertisement. Now the problem is that apparently Google advertises websites that are selling counterfeit products. The websites are, most of the time, not legitimate which I would not expect from the ‘trusted platform’ Google. When such a website pays €4 to Google every time someone clicks on the advertisement, Google is making millions in an illegal way. According to a spokesman from Google, they have strict terms and conditions to allow adverts. If they discover an advert referring to counterfeit goods, they take it down immediately. I think that Google allows websites between legal and illegal just to make some more profits. Police’s e-crime units already closed down thousands of these websites but in an hour, they just reappear.
(http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article6981227.ece)
Ivo De Clercq
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