Delirium Propaganda

Google Blogoscoped has a story reporting that Adsense has officially contacted them to inform that they are prohibited from showing ads on the Chinese site Google.blogoscoped.cn. The site is question is not the property of Google Blogscoped but their Adsense ID is utilized since the Chinese site in question does borrow and translates some articles and compensates by generously sharing some of their revenue.It seems that the problem lies in the domain name used. Since it contains the word “Google“, Adsense ads are note permitted to be displayed. After contacting Adsense they received the following response.

Publishers are not permitted to make prominent use of “Google Brand Features” on sites showing Google ads. Google Brand Features include Google logos, product screenshots, or other distinctive features. Additionally, publishers may not place Google ads on sites incorporating Google trademarks in the site URL or on sites that frame Google pages, including search results pages. Which means in your case that the word “google” in the URL is not okay for showing ads, hence we had to deactivate serving to the site.

Apparently this is not an isolated case, many other sites containing the word “Google” in their domain have been banned from Adsense. Trying to be re-included is an option but the trend seems to demonstrate that this will not happen.

[tags] Google, Adsense, Blogoscoped [/tags]