techstyled - 9:54 pm on Sep 5, 2007 (gmt 0)

Just to throw my experience in here.

The day after this was announced, I submitted a complaint (granted the new policy is not in effect yet).

They responded with a request to see my Patent Office filings which I complied with immediately.

The responded with a boilerplate, "sorry, we didn't remove any ads because after careful, blah blah"

That was yesterday.

Today, I can not find a single competitor and specifically the 4 I reported, only pricegrabber type sites.

However, I noticed something I hadn't noticed before (maybe just oversight on my part) and that is "Related Searches" showing up with almost all my competitors names. Granted if I search for my competitors names then my company name shows up in the Related Searches, so...

Has "Related Searches" always been there and has it always so blatantly shown "Pepsi" if you search for "Coke" etc.?