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Re: Google bans yet another small business

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> Despite the hundreds of thousands of small businesses that do advertise successfully on these search engines? In other words: The existence of hundreds of thousands of happy white people make it unlikely that a black guy could get targeted by two racists. Clearly cop A who allegedly broke his right leg and cop B who allegedly broke his left leg are to be found not guilty asap so they wont have to miss their biweekl…

I don't understand how preventing this business from giving Google money is meant to enrich Google? It's fine to suggest a nefarious scheme here, but surely we need to choose one more complex than raw profit, since it seems like Google and MS are declining to profit from specifically this company, right? Also, FWIW, I have found that it doesn't usually go over well to compare my non-civil rights struggle with civil r…

Google also has an interest in preventing fraudulent ads. While the Internet is never going to be "safe", Google does want to avoid having customers actively avoid clicking on ads out of fear.

So they've got a (haphazard, ham-fisted, obscure) mechanism for removing stuff they consider undesirable. It costs them money, but they hope the balance is positive by keeping their reputation up.

That mechanism has both false positives and false negatives (as well as being flagrantly subjective), because it's far, far, far too much for them to examine each case closely. It may be your lifeline, but to them it's just another $10e2 in a $10e11 revenue stream.

Re: Google bans yet another small business

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Google and Microsoft banned this small business. Are we meant to believe they are coordinating to step on the little guy? Despite the hundreds of thousands of small businesses that do advertise successfully on these search engines? Somehow this does not seem likely to me. I suspect there is some other relevant factor that you are not telling us.

> I suspect there is some other relevant factor that you are not telling us.

Not necessarily, My MS Ad account I created for a product in my previous startup was not approved because I didn't enable international payments on my debit card(India) and it was declined 'once'. No second attempts, No means to add another card. Support just said 'Sorry we cannot enable your account'.

The product eventually got selected for acceleration by a FAANG company and did well. So it's MS loss that it failed to earn some money from me, But I understand that this could be fatal for a small business relying on these Internet custodians and they making flawed arbitrary decisions.

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