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Google to drop pharmacy ads:
Even if you’re not tied to the online pharmacy market this is worrisome for numerous reasons. There are no laws forbidding online pharmacies yet they were capable of making overture, yahoo and now google to quit taking ads.
There are no laws against internet gambling. What will we as webmasters do if overture, yahoo, and google refuse to take gambling ads? Especially now that commercial search results are almost impossible to get into google.
Antoine
well they haven’t stopped yet.
and what kind of a difference are they really going to make unless they choose to stop giving results in their search completely for these things?
from what I”m reading , all they are doing is cutting out the PPC money but they are still going to serve up results (free) so what’s the difference? all they are doing is agreeing to stop making money on it.
I mean, they’re still gonna take flack if some 12 year old ODs from pills he bought using their search.
Give it a week. Editors there are slow.
Google to shelve unlicensed drug ads
By Matt Hines and Stefanie Olsen
Staff Writer, CNET News.comSearch giant Google said it will no longer allow unlicensed pharmacies to buy advertisements on its Web site, following similar moves by rivals Microsoft and Yahoo.
Google spokesman David Krane on Monday said the company plans to phase out advertisements from organizations that appear to bypass U.S. federal government drug regulations to sell prescription medications on the Web. The Mountain View, Calif.-based company said it will hire an outside consultant to begin sorting through its customers to identify which advertisers are no longer welcome.
“We are planning on verifying sensitive pharmaceutical ads using a third party to ensure compliance with our policies,” Krane wrote in an e-mail. “We believe these changes will help both our users and advertisers by ensuring consumer choice and quality in online pharmacies.”
Over the last several years, scads of unlicensed pharmacies have gone into business online, selling prescription drugs such as the painkillers Vicodin and OxyContin to consumers without requiring evidence of proper medical approval. Last month, Overture Services, the commercial search subsidiary of Yahoo, announced that it had placed the last of its advertisements related to online pharmacies or pharmaceutical drug sales. Microsoft’s MSN portal, one of Overture’s biggest partners, also said it wanted the ads removed from its site. MSN licenses commercial search results from Overture.
Like Overture, Google lets advertisers bid for placement in search results on its site, related to specific keywords. The ads appear as “sponsored listings” alongside traditional search results. The program syndicates the sponsored listings, along with the nonpaid, algorithmic search results with which they appear, to Google partners including America Online. Under this model, Google search users who entered the name of a particular controlled drug were rewarded with pages of companies that promised sales of the substances, many of which appeared to ignore the legal issues attached to prescription narcotics in the United States.
The Google announcement comes in the wake of an aggressive lobbying campaign launched by U.S. pharmacy trade group the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy (NABP) and Drugstore.com, one of the Net’s largest online pharmacies. Carmen Catizone, executive director of NABP said that he is pleased with Google’s decision, but indicated that there remains a great deal of work to be done to protect the public from unlicensed drug purveyors.
“Google has taken a good first step, and I hope they work with us in validating which Web sites are acting illegally,” Catizone said. “However, along with not accepting ads and limiting search terms, we need companies like this to help us push the government for better controls.”
Catizone said NABP is pressuring the Federal Drug Administration, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency, state legislatures and credit card companies to help put illegal drug distributors out of business.
According to researcher Nielsen/NetRatings, online pharmacies accounted for some 2 billion advertising impressions in October, making the segment the second-largest group of advertisers within the health industry on the Net, behind weight-loss marketers. The health market made up about 5 percent of total online ad sales in October, Nielsen reported.
‘limiting search terms’
That’s great. It looks like the USA is planning on joining North Korea and China.
I love americans but every day that Bush is in power it seems that its people are falling more and more into a dictatorship.
Antoine
Well check this out!!
Feds Announce Indictment in Drug Sales
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/breaking_news/7405307.htm
Excerpt – 20 year sentence for selling diet pills and Viagra on the internet
rapists and child molesters get less
Among those charged was Vineet K. Chhabra, a 32-year-old Golden Beach, Fla. resident described by prosecutors as the main organizer of the scheme. He faces a 20-year sentence if convicted of operating a continuing criminal enterprise and additional prison time if convicted on money laundering, controlled substance violations and other charges.
You really can’t expect the drug companies sit by and watch their profits wan because Americans are getting medicine for less than half price from Canada over the internet!!!!!!
(We Canadians are a little worried that this might lead to a shortage of medicine up here)
One governor (Sorry, I don’t remember from which state) is actually promoting the use of the internet pharmacies for his constituents, so they can get affordable medicine! (Good for him!!)
But, all good things will come to an end down south there, at least any good thing that cuts into corporate profits. I see by reading this thread that it’s already started.
Man, it is incredible the power some of these companies have, eh?
Hey, do you guys know about the Google Bomb?
Do a Google search for “miserable failure”, then select “I feel lucky”
:roflmao:I already contributed to this Bomb by adding a miserable failure link on my links pages.
I yanked mine down. was starting to make some pretty good change too.
oh well, I never felt good about the deal anyway, just another lesson learned to listen to my first instincts more often.
