Supreme Court Rejects Google Appeal In Class Action Dispute From Advertisers (nbcnews.com) 17
An anonymous reader writes from a report via NBC News: The Supreme Court on Monday has rejected Google's appeal in a class action lawsuit involving claims that the company deceived California advertisers about the placement of internet ads via its Adwords service. NBC News reports: "The court's decision not to hear the case leaves in place a September 2015 ruling by the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that the litigation could move forward as a class action representing advertisers who use the service between 2004 and 2008. The 2008 lawsuit accused Google of violating California fair advertising laws because it misled advertisers about where the ads would be placed. The Adwords service was primarily aimed at placing ads next to relevant Google internet search results. But the plaintiffs said Google should have disclosed that ads would also appear in undesirable places such as error pages and undeveloped websites known as parked domains." Google has made an effort to clean up some of its ads. In February, the company announced it would be ditching sidebar ads. Most recently, Google announced in early May that it would ban payday loans and some related products from its ads systems.
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Also, it is standard corporate legal entanglements. If it wasn't Google and it fashionable to bash them, it wouldn't be here.
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Then again, if there were a way that worked, we could order done what should be done -- that is, force unregistering of parked domains.
Who is this "we"? I mean, I agree with you, but who do you imagine could make that happen?
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This judge is activist from bench and should be dis-bar and placed in peach.
i guess ur not a english speaker thats ok the word is actully empeach when u say it the way u did it means the judge is inside a peace of fruit lol
What if the judge is named James?
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The blind leading the blind.
Re: Activsit judge (Score:1)
Microsoft product-support forums? Where?
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This judge is activist from bench and should be dis-bar and placed in peach.
In that part of the US they actually place them in pears.
Adwords for dummies (Score:1)
"The Adwords service was primarily aimed at placing ads next to relevant Google internet search results. But the plaintiffs said Google should have disclosed that ads would also appear in undesirable places such as error pages and undeveloped websites known as parked domains."
When you sign up for adwords, you can choose if you want your ads to appear in (1) search results and/or (2) the google content system (basically blogs and websites that use adsense). When an adsense user (a website owner) gets approve
Eek! (Score:1)
Irony overflow
*quietly bursts into flames*