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Re:Google admits profiting from illegal Olympic ticket ads by DaveWAlbert on Tuesday January 10, 2012 @01:50AM (#3445983)
How is that different than any company selling a product and someone using it for something illegal?

As in "Wal-mart profits from illegal baseball bats." Bats used for vandalism or assault.

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Re:Google admits profiting from illegal Olympic ticket ads by johnrob on Tuesday January 10, 2012 @01:49AM (#3445981)
The title could just have easily been "Google promptly takes down ads for counterfeit olympics tickets". How could they possibly have known that the ad purchaser was selling fake tickets?
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Re:Google admits profiting from illegal Olympic ticket ads by rickmb on Tuesday January 10, 2012 @02:18AM (#3446039)
Google only took anything down "promptly" after being contacted by the BBC. The article also describes how Googles complaint procedure for mere mortals gets you nothing but an auto-reply bot.
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Re:Google admits profiting from illegal Olympic ticket ads by forkrulassail on Tuesday January 10, 2012 @02:46AM (#3446098)
About as sensationalist a title as the recent 'Woman in distress, nipple falls off' I've seen by a local paper.
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Re:Google admits profiting from illegal Olympic ticket ads by georgieporgie on Tuesday January 10, 2012 @02:47AM (#3446099)
Inflammatory title, flagged.

Regarding the Olympic ticket thing, from what I can tell the tickets weren't fake, it's just a contrived law that you can't resell Olympic tickets.

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