You can no longer search for guns or ammo on google shopping
07-01-2012, 07:57 PM
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You can no longer search for guns or ammo on google shopping
http://drudgegae.iavian.net/r?hop=ht...s-results.html
Type in something in and see for yourself. I'm less than thrilled with google right now.
Type in something in and see for yourself. I'm less than thrilled with google right now.
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07-01-2012, 08:11 PM
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same here, no bueno
looks like google will soon be off my list of companies I support, that includes all my gmail accounts.
Weapons - Advertising Policies Help
looks like google will soon be off my list of companies I support, that includes all my gmail accounts.
Weapons - Advertising Policies Help
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07-01-2012, 08:20 PM
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No proxy or other server I can use is able to duplicate your claimed functionality, Hustler.
9mm ammo returns fine across half a dozen US states and another half dozen countries. I'd say perhaps it's state-specific laws related, but I have a proxy located in Florida that returns perfectly fine for me, and MD is also located there.
9mm ammo returns fine across half a dozen US states and another half dozen countries. I'd say perhaps it's state-specific laws related, but I have a proxy located in Florida that returns perfectly fine for me, and MD is also located there.
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07-01-2012, 08:28 PM
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No proxy or other server I can use is able to duplicate your claimed functionality, Hustler.
9mm ammo returns fine across half a dozen US states and another half dozen countries. I'd say perhaps it's state-specific laws related, but I have a proxy located in Florida that returns perfectly fine for me, and MD is also located there.
9mm ammo returns fine across half a dozen US states and another half dozen countries. I'd say perhaps it's state-specific laws related, but I have a proxy located in Florida that returns perfectly fine for me, and MD is also located there.
http://support.google.com/adwordspol...&answer=176077
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07-01-2012, 08:37 PM
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Either Google is slowly rolling out a ban on guns and ammo sales across the US (Plausible but hard to believe they'd implement something extremely piecemeal across a few very specific locations), or it's tied to specific ISPs/geolocations (Somewhat probable - I have a proxy located in FL that doesn't get the results MD claims to get, remember), or something is seriously borking (Most probable I'd say).
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07-01-2012, 08:42 PM
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Did you read their own policy page, dude? It's for AdWords, not shopping.
Either Google is slowly rolling out a ban on guns and ammo sales across the US (Plausible but hard to believe they'd implement something extremely piecemeal across a few very specific locations), or it's tied to specific ISPs/geolocations (Somewhat probable - I have a proxy located in FL that doesn't get the results MD claims to get, remember), or something is seriously borking (Most probable I'd say).
Either Google is slowly rolling out a ban on guns and ammo sales across the US (Plausible but hard to believe they'd implement something extremely piecemeal across a few very specific locations), or it's tied to specific ISPs/geolocations (Somewhat probable - I have a proxy located in FL that doesn't get the results MD claims to get, remember), or something is seriously borking (Most probable I'd say).
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07-01-2012, 08:47 PM
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Secondly, since you went there - how is a private business deciding what is best for them and engaging in that not free market practice?
If Google decides it is best for them to not allow people to sell guns on their site, well, isn't that the free market at work boo?
/Yes, I just went there.
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07-01-2012, 08:50 PM
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Secondly, since you went there - how is a private business deciding what is best for them and engaging in that not free market practice?
If Google decides it is best for them to not allow people to sell guns on their site, well, isn't that the free market at work boo?
/Yes, I just went there.
If Google decides it is best for them to not allow people to sell guns on their site, well, isn't that the free market at work boo?
/Yes, I just went there.
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07-01-2012, 08:53 PM
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it was apparently put into effect today so the rest of you will probably see the results as it is rolled out acrossed google's infrastructure.
Google Shopping bans firearms, knives and ammunition from site listings - National Hunting & Fishing | Examiner.com
yes i know the source of the story isnt the greatest but they are the only ones covering it as of right now
Google Shopping bans firearms, knives and ammunition from site listings - National Hunting & Fishing | Examiner.com
yes i know the source of the story isnt the greatest but they are the only ones covering it as of right now
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07-01-2012, 08:57 PM
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...MO of your party-o-commies.
You pretty clearly tried to paint a free market issue (I.e. google is, for whatever reasons they may have, possibly removing a subset of search results on a commercial service), as an issue of "your party-o-commies" bro.
Apolitical, free market stance - "Let them, I'll take my money elsewhere."
Political, let's-try-to-turn-it-into-politics-stance - "MO of your party-o-commies"
If you don't like the decision of a business, that's fine. There's lots of businesses whose decisions I don't like - but I also don't try to paint them as the MO of the right-wing authoritarian conservatives, do I? There's no legislation or otherwise government intervention that I am aware of that led to this result, and frankly I am as baffled as you are if Google really goes through with this. Restricting their shopping results like this is truly baffling for a commercial service.
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07-01-2012, 09:04 PM
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Everyone on planet Earth is aware that google is a private corporation, we didn't need you to remind us. We're also fully aware of the way free commerce works, and champion the concept. This is Miataturbo, we vote with our guns and wallet.
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