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Unless Google has a policy saying no one else can advertise for the term "Facebook", Facebook has to advertise for it to prevent others from getting their ads i
by 0xffff2 11y ago
Unless Google has a policy saying no one else can advertise for the term "Facebook", Facebook has to advertise for it to prevent others from getting their ads in front of people who are looking for Facebook.
Search the name of virtually any large company, and their website will come up as both the first real result and the banner ad at the top of the results.
- lacker 11y agoNot true, as two seconds of research can demonstrate. Facebook does not advertise on Google for the term "Facebook". https://www.google.com/search?q=facebook&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8 https://www.google.com/search?q=facebook&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
- junto 11y agoI guess that depends on your region?
- JBiserkov 11y agoExactly! See also the story about how Read Write Web wrote an article about Facebook&AOL and became the second result for "facebook login".