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You shall not, and shall not authorize or encourage any third party to: (i) directly or indirectly generate queries, Referral Events, or impressions of or clicks on any Ad, Link, Search Result, or Referral Button through any automated, deceptive, fraudulent or other invalid means, including but not limited to through repeated manual clicks, the use of robots or other automated query tools and/or computer generated search requests, and/or the unauthorized use of other search engine optimization services and/or software; (ii) edit, modify, filter or change the order of the information contained in any Ad, Link, Ad Unit, Search Result, or Referral Button, or remove, obscure or minimize any Ad, Link, Ad Unit, Search Result, or Referral Button in any way; (iii) frame, minimize, remove or otherwise inhibit the full and complete display of any Web page accessed by an end user after clicking on any part of an Ad ("Advertiser Page"), any Search Results Page, or any Referral Page; (iv) redirect an end user away from any Advertiser Page, Search Results Page, or Referral Page; provide a version of the Advertiser Page, Search Results Page, or Referral Page that is different from the page an end user would access by going directly to the Advertiser Page, Search Results Page, or Referral Page; intersperse any content between the Ad and the Advertiser Page, between the page containing the Search Box and the Search Results Page, or between the Referral Button and the Referral Page; or otherwise provide anything other than a direct link from an Ad to an Advertiser Page, from the page containing the Search Box to the Search Results Page, or from the Referral Button to the Referral Page; (v) display any Ad(s), Link(s), or Referral Button(s) on any error page, on any registration or "thank you" page (e.g., a page that thanks a user after he/she has registered with the applicable Web site), on any chat page, in any email, or on any Web page or any Web site that contains any pornographic, hate-related, violent, or illegal content; (vi) directly or indirectly access, launch, and/or activate Ads, Links, Search Results, or Referral Buttons through or from, or otherwise incorporate the Ads, Links, Search Results, or Referral Buttons in, any software application, Web site, or other means other than Your Site(s), and then only to the extent expressly permitted by this Agreement (e.g., while Search Results may be indirectly accessed from Your Site(s), they may only be displayed on the appropriate Google-hosted Web page); (vii) "crawl", "spider", index or in any non-transitory manner store or cache information obtained from any Ads, Links, Search Results, or Referral Events, or any part, copy, or derivative thereto; (viii) act in any way that violates any Program Policies posted on the Google Web Site, as may be revised from time to time, or any other agreement between You and Google (including without limitation the Google AdWords program terms), or engage in any action or practice that reflects poorly on Google or otherwise disparages or devalues Google’s reputation or goodwill.
I think this is the longest sentence I have ever come across and I doubt whether anyone could read it and absorb all that it is intended to convey. Would it not make sense for Google to rewrite their terms and condiitions into English that is more easily understood. Surely with all these PHds they have someone who could do this?
ASA?
Surely with all these PHds they have someone who could do this?
Therein lies the problem, methinks ;-)
if you are averse to long sentences, i highly recommend that you stay away from any works by immanuel kant
... or William Faulkner.
It's a "Thou shalt not" followed by a number of independent clauses
Bullet points in any other language, but not in Googlespeak.
if you are averse to long sentences, i highly recommend that you stay away from any works by immanuel kant
Not a problem. I have never heard of him (her)?
(Somehow I feel that I have not been missing anything. :o)
Is there a grammar police that I could call. That's gotta be a grammar felony!
I agree, an easier to read TOS would be helpful (although most TOS that I've seen are usually mangled by legal departments so that they end up looking like this).
back to your question ..:=
makes you wonder if google ever heard of htags when you see their text formatting ..no wonder they cant validate or make any sense of most pages that they spider since awhile ..
