Investigation Examines Google’s ‘Support’ of Terrorists

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At this week’s Search Engine Strategies Conference in Chicago, Jim Hedger from Webmaster Radio detailedhow Google is serving AdWords ads to terrorist sites within the company’s social networking site Orkut. Some think it’s malicious. Others think Google can’t possibly monitor every single site in the world for content. Hedger also discussed how money earned from click fraud on these sites is “supporting” terrorism. You decide. Is there anything Google can or should do to minimize this?

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