Facebook Bans Advertiser Pushing Google+ Follows

Re:Facebook Bans Advertiser Pushing Google+ Follows by evolution on Monday July 18, 2011 @04:00AM (#2775495)

Obviously that seems logical. Tomorrow if G+ opens ad platform and Faecbook starts advertising I'm sure google won't approve those ads. Its against policy as well, any direct threat to their business will not be approved.

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Re:Facebook Bans Advertiser Pushing Google+ Follows by nostromo on Monday July 18, 2011 @04:21AM (#2775530)

Not true -- lots and lots of Google competitors advertise on Google. Apple (iPhone), Microsoft, Yahoo, etc. all are allowed to advertise on Google.

I don't see any reason to think they would change that if/when they bring advertising to G+.

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Re:Facebook Bans Advertiser Pushing Google+ Follows by vaksel on Monday July 18, 2011 @08:56AM (#2776073)

Google has their hands in a lot of pies, if they banned everyone they competed with, they'd lose 90% of their adwords advertisers

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Re:Facebook Bans Advertiser Pushing Google+ Follows by mhansen on Monday July 18, 2011 @04:37AM (#2775560)

Trivially false: See the approved ad for Facebook Ads on a Google search for 'advertising':

http://www.google.co.nz/search?q=advertising

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Re:Facebook Bans Advertiser Pushing Google+ Follows by fpgeek on Monday July 18, 2011 @04:27AM (#2775542)

Are you sure about that?

I just searched for "find friends" at Google and got a Facebook ad (among others). Personally, I'd expect Google to have confidence in Google+ and take whatever ad money Facebook wanted to throw their way. I'm sure they reserve the right to block all kinds of ads (including those from competitors). I just think what they actually do is more important than what they decide to keep in their back pocket.

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