[BNM] Legality of using a competitors name for search engine

[andrew holway]

American Airlines are in the process of suing Google over something similar.

Moaning about google producing sponsored results with other airlines
when people were googling american airlines which is generic or
something.....or other...and it was in the US.



On 04/09/07, Mark Ng <mark at markng.me.uk> wrote:
> On 04/09/07, Andy Budd <andy at clearleft.com> wrote:
> > There was a fairly well reported case a few years back of a blue chip
> > company being sued and blacklisted by Google for doing this.
>
> BMW were blacklisted by google for using "doorway" pages with hidden
> content.  This may or may not be the example you were thinking of ?
>
> Mark
> --
>
> BNM Subscribe/Unsubscribe:
> http://www.brightonnewmedia.org/options/bnmlist
>
> BNM info/archives:
> http://www.brightonnewmedia.org/
>
> BNM powered by Wessex Networks:
> http://www.wessexnetworks.com
>