Encourage Google to Stop Undermining Education

To:  Google Inc.

Please help us encourage Google to stop undermining education through their policy of displaying ads that encourage plagiarism and academic fraud through the sale of pre-written and made to order term papers and essays especially when these ads are displayed on web sites that promote education.

The Google AdWords program works by matching approved ads to content using algorithms and Google permits hosting web sites to block ads only by excluding certain domain names; businesses that sell term papers and essays (e.g. DirectEssays.com and MonsterPapers.com) simply use a large number of domain names to get around this minor restriction which allows them to promote academic fraud even on web sites that promote education.

Google screens all of its ads for acceptability and they already choose to NOT accept ads that promote alcohol, tobacco, weapons and other things ranging from miracle cures to license plate covers. Google has therefore chosen to accept advertising dollars from companies whose sole purpose is to promote academic dishonesty.

Our site carried Google ads until we found that we could not prevent advertising that is completely counter to our site’s purpose of promoting critical thinking skills (especially among students) and Google replied to our inquiries writing, “we are not currently monitoring for plagiarism sites.” We would like to encourage Google to change this policy.

As an alternative to not accepting such ads altogether, Google could use their renowned engineers to easily create meta-filters that would prevent any content of a given category from appearing on a web site that did not wish to display it. Such an approach might even encourage greater use of Google’s ad service by those who otherwise wouldn’t use it under the current circumstances.

Google’s stated philosophy is that “you can make money without doing evil.” Show us. Google provides a number of outstanding services that we applaud but in this instance they have apparently placed profit over principle.

Google has responded to petitions in the past so please help us encourage them to do the right thing now. In addition to signing this petition please feel free to contact Google directly to voice your concern over this issue at: http://tinyurl.com/874sy

Jack Paulus
www.TruthMapping.com

Sincerely,

The Undersigned

The Encourage Google to Stop Undermining Education Petition to Google Inc. was created by TruthMapping.com and written by Jack Paulus (petition@TruthMapping.com).  This petition is hosted here at www.PetitionOnline.com as a public service. There is no endorsement of this petition, express or implied, by Artifice, Inc. or our sponsors. For technical support please use our simple Petition Help form.

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