Google to ban "Term Paper" and "Essay" ads soon!

Hi:

I have heard that google will ban all kind of "term paper", "essays", "thesis" , "dissertation" etc by next month. All example academic term paper and essay related sites will not be able to use Adwords!

Google is facing too much pressure from US educators and colleges. It may apply to Youtube too.

Term paper sites were already banned from Adsense in Feb, 2007. Too many Russians run essay ads on them.

What a blow to cheaters and fraud companies! :)

Interesting - got a link to the article?

Currently I dont have.

Actually I am from PK and I personally know many companies who run these wesbites. I got to know from a colleague who is working at EssayRelief that Google has emailed them. (I assume Google has emailed all advertisers).

I will try to get a copy of that email.

:)

This is possible, but personally I highly doubt that they would do that.

Perhaps they may ban one publisher for one or another reason, but I don't think they would ban the whole industry. Especially that they allow p0rn, gambling etc. and it brings them a lot of money. What about "homework help" or "tutoring" websites - they are actually in the same category.

Yeeh, you are right.

I doubt that they would do that because in their current "Content Guide" ads for "fake diplomas" are not allowed, yet many websites are still using Adwords for diploma mills.

So, lets wait and see :)

Where did you "hear" that--from your brother's friend's housekeeper's daughter's teacher's father's pool boy?

Yes, AdSense no longer allows personal sites to participate in the AdSense program if they also contain advertising for term paper sites. I assume this is only because whiny teachers kept complaining to Google about how term paper ads were appearing on their own sites and other "educational" sites.

This has absolutely nothing to do with AdWords. AdWords will only ban illegal products.

Plus, even if it were true, it's not a "blow" to anyone, really. All essay sites would still be on even ground in regular search results.

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LOL! If Essayrelief got the email, it's probably because they are total frauds. That's good news for everyone.

I actually didn't know Adsense didn't allow that (I think they had to ban them = if that's the case = for technical reasons as they couldn't really recognize the content of the publisher site). So in some cases "term paper ads" appeared on educational, university websites.

Right.

AdWords ads only appear in search engines, not on personal sites that use AdSense for revenue.

Hmm - on the other hand it seems such ads do appear on some sites, for example educationindex.net

Timmy00, I stand corrected. It's true. The curiosity was killing me, so I called a friend whose brother works for Google.

In the next few weeks, Google will be closing all AdWords accounts that deal in the sale of custom or prewritten term papers or essays.

Somewhere, Terry Semel is smiling.

I have re-confirmed it too with few other ppl. Will be posting email body shortly.

Ban will be aplicable for: Custom or pre-written term papers, essays, research papers, thesis papers and dissertations.

This ban will not affect google's organic listing.

What about the other countries - is the ban to be only on google.com (how about google.co.uk, google.com.pk etc.)?

I have same question in my mind too.

They havnt mentioned this in their email so I guess ban will be applicable for all countries.

This will be a bad news for many people but at the same time goooooood news for some people. I mean after this ban 80% of google business will go to top-10 websites in organic listing.

Fake Degrees:
google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&q=degrees&btnG=Google+Search

Hacking
google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=hacking&btnG=Search

Term Papers:
Sorry, not allowed.

Term Papers - am I missing something here (there are ads all over the place)..

google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=term+papers

Ads will be suspended in next few weeks. Not immediately. Especially those blatant ones that target keywords like "custom essay", "buy essay", "coursework help" etc.

I was highlighting the pending hypocrisy of Google.

Yes - I don't know why essay or academic tutoring ads would be banned while the other stuff is freely available for the public..

The ban is correct, please see the following link, the main education news on the BBC website.


news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/6680457.stm

Does the ban start tomorrow?

I would think it should start already. Maybe it was a hoax? :}

The news article is dated 22 May 2007 and says the ban will start next month, which by my reckoning is June :)

I thought it would be June 1st... (today)

It's June all month long, Major :P

Ads went off for "term papers" and "term paper" keywords

So it's July and has anything changed in the aspect of essay and term paper ads on Google?

There are no ads at all for "term papers," but there are still ads for "term paper writing" and all other similar keyword phrases.

Why didn't Google simply close the AdWords accounts of essay mills so that all keywords would be banned at once? I think Google has handled the ban very poorly.

How comes Google bans some websites and leaves others? When searching for the term "essay" websites like essayrelief and ukessays are missing, however ads show up for website Coursework.Info

Google like any other corporation isn't perfect...

Coursework.Info submit their essays to Turnitin...preventing anyone from misusing their site.

they deffiently need to delete all that false advertising

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Scam websites aren't listed on Google?

If a website is scam, they won't be listed by Google, right? They don't list scam websites.

I hope that you're not serious.

I also meant illegal sites. If sites are illegal then GOogle removes them.

Aside from sites involving egregiously illegal things like ch pooon and narcotics, Google does not remove sites without a court order.

So when I find a site on Google, it's safe? Cause it has no legal action (if it was illegal it would not be listed).

The message is clear.

Sanchez:

If you are in college, you need to get smarter, fast. Don't try going through any website; try doing your homework and learning something. You'd be surprised how much easier it gets as you go along.