Google sued for selling keywords to competitor
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American Airlines sues Google[^] American Airlines, the world's largest airline, is seeking damages from internet search leader Google for selling search words involving its name. The dispute relates to Google's practice of selling search terms such as "American Airlines" or "AA.com" to other companies for advertising. Interesting. I'm not sure Google can actually (practically or morally) police such a thing.
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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American Airlines sues Google[^] American Airlines, the world's largest airline, is seeking damages from internet search leader Google for selling search words involving its name. The dispute relates to Google's practice of selling search terms such as "American Airlines" or "AA.com" to other companies for advertising. Interesting. I'm not sure Google can actually (practically or morally) police such a thing.
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
Chris Maunder wrote:
I'm not sure Google can actually (practically or morally) police such a thing.
Yeah, but lawyers can make google pay for that inability!
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American Airlines sues Google[^] American Airlines, the world's largest airline, is seeking damages from internet search leader Google for selling search words involving its name. The dispute relates to Google's practice of selling search terms such as "American Airlines" or "AA.com" to other companies for advertising. Interesting. I'm not sure Google can actually (practically or morally) police such a thing.
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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American Airlines sues Google[^] American Airlines, the world's largest airline, is seeking damages from internet search leader Google for selling search words involving its name. The dispute relates to Google's practice of selling search terms such as "American Airlines" or "AA.com" to other companies for advertising. Interesting. I'm not sure Google can actually (practically or morally) police such a thing.
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
American Airlines is the most sue happy company I have every heard of. They will sue anyone that thinks of their logo/name/URL. The flight sim community tried using their paint scheme on planes and the companies that did it got sued and a few individuals creating their content got cease and desist letters. There is something, imo, wrong with behavior such as this.
Darroll
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American Airlines is the most sue happy company I have every heard of. They will sue anyone that thinks of their logo/name/URL. The flight sim community tried using their paint scheme on planes and the companies that did it got sued and a few individuals creating their content got cease and desist letters. There is something, imo, wrong with behavior such as this.
Darroll
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American Airlines sues Google[^] American Airlines, the world's largest airline, is seeking damages from internet search leader Google for selling search words involving its name. The dispute relates to Google's practice of selling search terms such as "American Airlines" or "AA.com" to other companies for advertising. Interesting. I'm not sure Google can actually (practically or morally) police such a thing.
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
people sue people for anything these days... so chris... thought about buying some key words? p.s not like CP needs it ;)
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American Airlines sues Google[^] American Airlines, the world's largest airline, is seeking damages from internet search leader Google for selling search words involving its name. The dispute relates to Google's practice of selling search terms such as "American Airlines" or "AA.com" to other companies for advertising. Interesting. I'm not sure Google can actually (practically or morally) police such a thing.
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
They have obviously lost the plot! They should be suing Google users for performing searches involving the words "American" or "Airlines".
Phil
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American Airlines sues Google[^] American Airlines, the world's largest airline, is seeking damages from internet search leader Google for selling search words involving its name. The dispute relates to Google's practice of selling search terms such as "American Airlines" or "AA.com" to other companies for advertising. Interesting. I'm not sure Google can actually (practically or morally) police such a thing.
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
Chris Maunder wrote:
Interesting. I'm not sure Google can actually (practically or morally) police such a thing.
Yes they most certainly can and did right up until this month and we are in a fight with them over it. They used to have the option of adding your trademarked terms to some kind of master list they kept so that competitors could not use it. You just had to prove you owned the trademark. We just had to check and see if it was being used by anyone else, email google and they would shut them down. Last week we noticed some stupid portal site was using our trademarked term and emailed google, they said they don't do that any more and it's our responsibility to get the offending party to stop using it (some anonymous portal site, good luck with that). We replied that it was their responsibility because they (google) are making money off unauthorized use of our trademarked term. I'm not sure what their reply was as it's not my department but I'm glad that someone with deep pockets is kicking them in the ass for this because they have both the easy ability to not do it as proven in the past and it's clearly against the Lanham act regarding trademark law.
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American Airlines is the most sue happy company I have every heard of. They will sue anyone that thinks of their logo/name/URL. The flight sim community tried using their paint scheme on planes and the companies that did it got sued and a few individuals creating their content got cease and desist letters. There is something, imo, wrong with behavior such as this.
Darroll
Darrol wrote:
There is something, imo, wrong with behavior such as this
You pay thousands of dollars for a trademark and see how you feel when people start abusing it to make money for themselves off of a trademark that you have spent more than a decade building up a good name around. (We are in the same situation as American Airlines with google recently on this and if we had the money I'd sue google in a heartbeat, I'm glad AA is doing it.)
"I don't want more choice. I just want better things!" - Edina Monsoon
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American Airlines sues Google[^] American Airlines, the world's largest airline, is seeking damages from internet search leader Google for selling search words involving its name. The dispute relates to Google's practice of selling search terms such as "American Airlines" or "AA.com" to other companies for advertising. Interesting. I'm not sure Google can actually (practically or morally) police such a thing.
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Darrol wrote:
There is something, imo, wrong with behavior such as this
You pay thousands of dollars for a trademark and see how you feel when people start abusing it to make money for themselves off of a trademark that you have spent more than a decade building up a good name around. (We are in the same situation as American Airlines with google recently on this and if we had the money I'd sue google in a heartbeat, I'm glad AA is doing it.)
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But taking something that is really general like Monster, is a bit much. I wish Monster Garage would sue Monster Cable.
This statement was never false.
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But taking something that is really general like Monster, is a bit much. I wish Monster Garage would sue Monster Cable.
This statement was never false.
Yeah I agree, but in our case we have a trademarked unique product name that can not be used by anyone else. It's a made up word, and there are no other people that sell our product or have any need to be using the word. Our competitors are buying the word so they can drive business to their site which is a violation of trademark law and Google is complicit, but of much more importance to google (or at least should be) is that they are providing a shitty service if someone searches for our product and gets another producers product entirely. When you search for Xerox or Javex you expect to get results related to those products and companies. We have a similarly unique name.
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Yeah I agree, but in our case we have a trademarked unique product name that can not be used by anyone else. It's a made up word, and there are no other people that sell our product or have any need to be using the word. Our competitors are buying the word so they can drive business to their site which is a violation of trademark law and Google is complicit, but of much more importance to google (or at least should be) is that they are providing a shitty service if someone searches for our product and gets another producers product entirely. When you search for Xerox or Javex you expect to get results related to those products and companies. We have a similarly unique name.
"I don't want more choice. I just want better things!" - Edina Monsoon
And I agree with your point. I was just talking to the Monster one.
This statement was never false.