Friday, January 26, 2007

Casino advertisements on the giant search engine Google could be a thing of
the past following a decision by Google HQ currently being reported in
marketing media. The reason behind the decision is reportedly that Google
and its rival Yahoo! have allegedly been warned off by the US Justice
Department authorities for promoting gambling indirectly to an underage
audience through advertising pop-ups. The *voluntary* decision applies only
to the United States in the case of Yahoo!, where Justice officials have
been exercising a major crackdown on all aspects of Internet gambling.
However, it is understood that Google plans to extend the ban globally.