Google admits profiting from illegal Olympic ticket ads

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-16468846

[johnrob]

The title could just have easily been "Google promptly takes down ads for counterfeit olympics tickets". How could they possibly have known that the ad purchaser was selling fake tickets?

[rickmb → johnrob]

Google only took anything down "promptly" after being contacted by the BBC. The article also describes how Googles complaint procedure for mere mortals gets you nothing but an auto-reply bot.

[DaveWAlbert]

How is that different than any company selling a product and someone using it for something illegal?

As in "Wal-mart profits from illegal baseball bats." Bats used for vandalism or assault.

[forkrulassail]

About as sensationalist a title as the recent 'Woman in distress, nipple falls off' I've seen by a local paper.

[georgieporgie]

Inflammatory title, flagged.

Regarding the Olympic ticket thing, from what I can tell the tickets weren't fake, it's just a contrived law that you can't resell Olympic tickets.