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Google Gets Around To Policing Internet Pharmacy Sites

By Robert David, Esq.

Google has for many years profited somewhat well from advertising by websites dedicated to gambling and internet pharmacy. Website owners who want to advertise on Google and other search engine companies bid on words in an ongoing auction. So, when a person enters a search term and advertisements pop up on the screen top and sides, it costs those advertisers money for the placement and for the number of clicks on those advertisements. Some of the highest cost adwords are for gambling and prescription drugs. Google has long had a strange relationship in that regard with their most profitable advertisers, at times being accused of enabling illegal conduct. Google has taken steps over time to try to distance itself from some of those advertisers...continue to full post

Full post as published by Health Care Fraud Blog on February 15, 2010 (boomark / email).