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It is always possible their adwords sales person suggested it. Ever since Google prevailed in their advertising against trademarks suit [1] where they aren't responsible for folks who buy ads against someone else's trade or service mark I see more of it (well when I use Google anyway, which is hardly ever :-)

I expect that some sociopath at GotoMeeting has the 'win' bit set to "we get more referrals from Google" and they haven't had a penalty created for being underhanded (or as they would no doubt say, competitive). Bid more for your own name and you won't get ads on top of you. Google wins, you lose. Sorry about that.

[1] http://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2012/01/keyword_adverti... - and many links at the end.



That would be my take too, some idiot sales guy thought it would be a good idea. I'm pretty sure that does not come from management.

Obviously that goes against google ads rules and you don't want your company ban from there if you are legit (gotomeeting seems to be)




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