http://waaronw.com/blog/annoyances/trademarks-gone-to-far/ Rants and ramblings and things in between. Mon, 26 Mar 2012 16:21:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://waaronw.com/blog/annoyances/trademarks-gone-to-far/comment-page-1/#comment-17 admin Fri, 13 Mar 2009 23:20:33 +0000 http://waaronw.com/blog/?p=58#comment-17 I'm sure they do - it seems to not be in their best interest to help you follow the rules, no matter what logic would dictate. This is an excerpt from a longer list that's put together via "crowdsourcing" if you will - people who have had disapproved ads submitting the words they got dinged on. I have not vetted this list - something I should have mentioned above. However, I don't doubt most of them as they are trademarks in certain <em>narrow</em> fields of business. I'm not going to link to the site here (though you can find it easily enough with - you guessed it - Google itself) because I suspect, if it gets too much coverage then Google will find some way to make life hard on the poster. If you find a page with a big table of trademarked words along with a smaller table of prohibited content words, you've probably found it. I’m sure they do – it seems to not be in their best interest to help you follow the rules, no matter what logic would dictate.
This is an excerpt from a longer list that’s put together via “crowdsourcing” if you will – people who have had disapproved ads submitting the words they got dinged on.
I have not vetted this list – something I should have mentioned above. However, I don’t doubt most of them as they are trademarks in certain narrow fields of business.
I’m not going to link to the site here (though you can find it easily enough with – you guessed it – Google itself) because I suspect, if it gets too much coverage then Google will find some way to make life hard on the poster. If you find a page with a big table of trademarked words along with a smaller table of prohibited content words, you’ve probably found it.

]]> http://waaronw.com/blog/annoyances/trademarks-gone-to-far/comment-page-1/#comment-16 dan Fri, 13 Mar 2009 23:02:20 +0000 http://waaronw.com/blog/?p=58#comment-16 Where'd you get the list? Google supposedly protects its preclusion list. Where’d you get the list? Google supposedly protects its preclusion list.

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