Comments on: Google Sues For Trademark Infringement? http://www.searchengineoptimizationjournal.com/google-trademark/ Mon, 13 May 2013 21:06:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Nick Stamoulis http://www.searchengineoptimizationjournal.com/google-trademark/comment-page-1/#comment-78831 Nick Stamoulis Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:36:20 +0000 http://www.searchengineoptimizationjournal.com/?p=9442#comment-78831 Hi Jordan,
Thanks for sharing the additional information and link to SE Roundtable post…it should be interesting to see really how long it will take Google to clean up all of the scammers. Also, I wonder if when they catch most of them, how long it will take for these scammers to find another way around it and 6 months from now we all will be talking about that aspect of the story. :)

Anyway, thanks for stopping by and the comment!

]]> By: Jordan McCollum http://www.searchengineoptimizationjournal.com/google-trademark/comment-page-1/#comment-78724 Jordan McCollum Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:06:21 +0000 http://www.searchengineoptimizationjournal.com/?p=9442#comment-78724 Actually, I don’t think that’s what they’ve done here. Google has blocked the ads on AdWords progressively more aggressively, first disallowing the terms, and ultimately banning the scammers (Barry @ SE Roundtable gave a good overview of the bans: http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/021315.html ).

I’ve read the court filing and Google asserts (correctly, from the screencaps I’ve seen) that the scammers are using Google’s name and logo—their trademark—on their (the scammers’) websites illegally, and making it appear that Google endorses their products and services. They’re not suing them for the AdWords ads they’ve been blocking for months.

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