Adwords “Egregious” Bans…FTC, French Regulators

Sunglasses are Egregious!

Remember in my previous post where I surmised that Google was doing an end-run around their promise to French regulators by calling all bans “egregious” so as to circumvent their promise to give advertisers warnings?

Well, the evidence just keeps pouring in that Google is doing whatever they damn well please.

Look at this poor guy. He got banned for advertising SUNGLASSES.

I mean, that’s some egregious stuff right there. SUNGLASSES! In fact, it was so bad that Google banned him permanently in just 12 hours. No warning. 12 hours.

The Google response is as usual, extremely helpful:

Helpful as Always...

Once again, they are calling this person’s site “egregious”. I would bet that most people would reserve the word “egregious” for overt scams like malware, right? But Google uses it as their “get of jail free” card to avoid giving notice of banning an account.

I doubt this is what French regulators had in mind.

I think Microsoft is on to something, don’t you?