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Re: Facebook blocks Google+ ads

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Post by patrickaljord »

reso wrote: post #44
orijing wrote: post #35

No one here mentioned the likely reason that the ads were blocked by the ad review system (a combination of ML and people in India or something). I don't know exactly how it works, but I'm pretty sure it is risky for Facebook to allow ads to run with trademarks that the advertiser does not own. The Google+ logo is a trademark. Can he try running an ad with just his face? It still might get disabled (in which case it…

A million times this. I bet, with their volume, very few ads would make it to the human-review stage at Facebook. This was most likely caught by an automated filter that didn't like something (e.g., the trademark image) about the ad. Never attribute to malice what can easily be attributed to stupidity, or in this case, naive artificial intelligence.

They can just check for the link to google+, no need for a fancy image filter for that...

Re: Facebook blocks Google+ ads

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Post by patrickaljord »

nhebb wrote: post #20
ugh wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I know quite a few newspapers that have no problem selling ad space to their competitors and have done just that. Your comparison to companies that don’t even sell ad space doesn’t make any sense. This is an astonishing display of cowardice on Facebook’s part (if it is indeed true).

If I google "facebook games" I see a few AdWords listed. If a Google user clicks those ads, it's not like that will drive the user away from Google search. But if someone on Facebook has an ad that reads "Julio Fernandez moved to Google+ ...", then that is driving users away from Facebook. I don't see why a company should facilitate a mass exodus toward a competing service. I don't use Facebook and think they're kind…

I saw a facebook ad on gmail though, and facebook does offer an email product too.

Re: Facebook blocks Google+ ads

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Post by erikb »

Daniel_Newby wrote: post #38
perlpimp wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Google+ is not Facebook. Nor it will ever be. The only hope google has is not to make a better facebook, but to change rules of the game. There will be no exodus from facebook. Evolution moves at its own pace, regardless of facebook or google. Only those that go in step with evolution will flourish. As such exodus from facebook will never happen. Though young and bright - most lucrative section of advertising market…

Downvotes should be reserved for off-topic or badly-expressed comments. If you disagree, click "reply" and educate me. There will be no exodus from facebook. It is likely that this ad ban was instigated by watching Facebook pageviews plummet, and by watching contagious defection spread through their userbase.

I gave u an up for both of ur posts. I really hate these opinion based downvotes. It is really not what it is meant for.

My upvotes are more a delete of false downvotes. They are not meant as a support for ur point, btw.

Re: Facebook blocks Google+ ads

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Post by erikb »

haberman wrote: post #30
Klonoar wrote: post #28

Facebook is a damn business, Google+ is competition. The fact that this ad was blocked isn't really news, it's just how business plays out. It's not in Facebook's interest at all to run this. I routinely find myself astonished at how people think the online world should work. Everything should be free, don't charge for anything, let your competitors advertise in your space, ads are the devil, business plan is to make…

What competitor's ads do Google block? People respond to a story like this because it belies an attitude of weakness/protectionism from Facebook, not so much because of some kind of moral outrage about how things "should" be.

Googles policy is totally opposite to Facebooks. If Google (still having the biggest web search engine as their driving product) would block facebook, then I would not support Google, because it is against their policy. FB never said they were not about business. And from the business point of view G+ advertisment on FB is "evil".

If Google says "Let's play the game like gentlemen" I expect a gentlemens game from them.

Of course I'd love to see G+ beat FB. I hope that helps u to see, that I merely am against this kind of "under the belt hits". As long as G+ stays true to it's word of "don't be evil" I absolutely support them over FB.

Re: Facebook blocks Google+ ads

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Post by law »

Klonoar wrote: post #28

Facebook is a damn business, Google+ is competition. The fact that this ad was blocked isn't really news, it's just how business plays out. It's not in Facebook's interest at all to run this. I routinely find myself astonished at how people think the online world should work. Everything should be free, don't charge for anything, let your competitors advertise in your space, ads are the devil, business plan is to make…

Right, Facebook is a business, and they were being paid to run an advertisement. It turns out that the ad (albeit indirectly) is for their competition. Blocking on the presumed basis that the advertisement may encourage users to leave Facebook is bad business. The advertisement is legal and honest, but the problem is that it 'might' cause people to leave Facebook. I think we all 'get' that Facebook is running a business, but this practice is anti-competitive.

Re: Facebook blocks Google+ ads

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Post by Xlythe »

pyre wrote: post #16
Xlythe wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, but even sites that do sell generic ad space have ads they don't want shown (Porn, competitors, things that would reduce the brand name).

Things that you don't want and things that you'll allow are separate sets, not guaranteed to have full intersection.

Perhaps not, but after working for an advertising company the two overlap greatly.
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