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Australian Competition and Consumer Commission launched legal action against AdWords

Juha-Matti Laurio [PersonRank 10]

Thursday, October 4, 2007
4 years ago988 views

"Australia's consumer watchdog on Thursday agreed to drop legal action against two Google subsidiaries, but vowed to pursue the Internet giant's parent company for allegedly misleading web users."

The point is that Google is reportedly misleading people who thought the ranking of its search results was not influenced by payments from advertisers.

Link to The Sydney Morning Herald article:
smh.com.au/news/Technology/Aus ...

It appears this is the first time when this type of case is in the hands of court.

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