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Google Bans Adwords use for Facebook

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Re: Google Bans Adwords use for Facebook

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Post by thedragon4453 »

vaksel wrote: post #29
thedragon4453 wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

IANAL, but in the US whether you actually hold a monopoly is the key. I think it would be bough to show that Google holds a monopoly in this space. They definitely command the biggest market share, but I'm not sure it would be enough to show that they have a monopoly. 65% (as reported here: http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/2011/02/11/googles-lead-s... ) is certainly the lion's share, but not quite a monopoly by US…

it's in google's best interest to get studies to show them with lower market share. I'd bet if you tallied up the stats for 100 biggest sites, Google would have at least 90, if not 95% of all search engine traffic

I doubt that just for the fact that IE comes with bing as default. I don't think enough people actually care to change it. I would not be surprised to see it higher, but I highly doubt greater than 80%.

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Post by mckoss »

thedragon4453 wrote: post #27
gavinballard wrote: post #5

Anyone with a US legal background know if this raises any antitrust issues? It would certainly raise some red flags under Australian competition law.

IANAL, but in the US whether you actually hold a monopoly is the key. I think it would be bough to show that Google holds a monopoly in this space. They definitely command the biggest market share, but I'm not sure it would be enough to show that they have a monopoly. 65% (as reported here: http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/2011/02/11/googles-lead-s... ) is certainly the lion's share, but not quite a monopoly by US…

I remember hearing that Google is making well over 50% of all Internet Advertising revenue in the US.

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Post by slipstream »

byrneseyeview wrote: post #26
fpgeek wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interestingly, a search for "find friends" on Google still returns an ad promoting Facebook from Facebook itself. That's one data point in favor of the Facebook-initiated trademark hypothesis.

Screenshot? I see FB as the top organic result, but not as an advertiser.

Screenshot from just now http://i.imgur.com/7r1Lt.png

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Post by Natsu »

dangrossman wrote: post #2

Google recently suspended all my ads for advertising services (AdWords competitors) and for ad tracking services (Analytics competitors). These are sites Google had advertised for as long as 6 years without issue. The reasons all seem a stretch ( http://www.w3roi.com is suspended for 'misleading claims' - what claims?). Someone's rewriting policies and cracking down over there, and it's a big problem for any business…

Weird. I still see lots of ads for "alternatives to adsense" and similar things whenever I open up Gmail.

I get them almost every day for some reason

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