[ga] Google Text Ads For Known Malware Sites

["Jeffrey A. Williams" <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

All,

  Shouldn't ICANN be looking into this more closely and
perhaps shutting down Google if such errant behavior
continues?  Or does the pure market share of Google
get it a pass?

See:
"We all know that Google purges known 'attack sites' sites that deliver
viruses, spyware, or other malware to visitors from its index of
searchable sites, but that doesn't stop the text ad giant from
http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/why_google_running_ads_known_malware_sites
happily selling ads linking to those sites. One wouldn't think it would
be any more difficult to cross-reference the list of purged sites with 
the list of advertisers than it was for the main search index, would
it?" 
To be fair, the article says that Google shut down the ad when notified
of 
it; and no other examples of linked malware are offered. Was this a
one-time 
oversight?

Regards,

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