False and deceptive pay-per-click AdWords ads

Benjamin Edelman presents and critiques pay-per-click ads that don’t deliver what they promise. They are not only unethical but also sometimes illegal and are against the content policy of Google AdWords.

Toward the end of the text, Edelman suggests that Google expands its policy to prevent these scams; closely monitor the trigger words such as free and watch for violations. He have developed a system that allows interested users to submit ads they consider misleading in order to track and present more dubious ads.

AdWords maintenance 14 October 2006

On Saturday, October 14th, the AdWords system will be unavailable from approximately 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. PDT due to system maintenance. Advertisers won’t be able to log into your accounts during this time, but campaigns will continue to run as usual.