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Google Refuses Conservative Ad, Similar to Liberal Ad
By Jeff Johnson
CNSNews.com Senior Staff Writer
May 4, 2005
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Tuesday morning, if visitors searched Google under Pelosi's name, anti-DeLay ads were also returned under the "sponsored links."
"We saw that there's some obvious bias going on here," Greene added, "obvious discrimination."
That had apparently been changed by the afternoon, when searches under Pelosi's name returned no ads.
Google officials referred Cybercast News Service to their online policies.
"Stating disagreement with or campaigning against a candidate for public office, a political party or public administration is generally permissible," the policy on "Anti and Violence" advertising states. "This standard applies to everyone who wants to advertise on Google, whether we agree with their viewpoint or not."
"If you've got a written policy, all we're asking is that you apply it even-handedly or don't have the policy," Greene concluded.
This is not the first time that Google has been accused of bias. In October 2003, a federally licensed firearms dealer in Connecticut complained that Google was accepting ads for pornographic websites - which illegally made materials available to underaged children - but would not accept ads from licensed gun dealers selling a legal product to adults. At the time, a spokesman for Google said the policy was "part of our terms and conditions."
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