On Thursday, August 16, 2012 10:02:42 PM UTC-7, Tim in Boulder wrote: > > On 8/16/2012 7:55 PM, John Coryat wrote: > > I can guess which one won't get you banned... > > Imagine if it did, though. Wouldn't the press response be exquisite? ;) > > Tim >
The scenario is not as far fetched as you may imagine. After all, you are counting on different parts of Google to talk to each other. Given the Android Market team's history of isolation in Google's Lunar facility, that isn't a given. A few examples: I tried out advertising Android apps through Adwords, following instructions given me by Google, and I had the toughest time getting the ads approved. They targeted Android only, but they were rejected because the urls didn't work on PCs, because the web Market didn't exist yet. A few other things like that happened. At an analytics talk at Google I/O, a Google Engineer said that you couldn't get Market keywords from the Android Market through analytics. He was wrong. I'd been doing it for six months. The only reason it didn't work for everyone is that the Market team and the Analytics team never talked. Minor changes in code (two lines) and it would have worked. Now it has stopped working, even for me, because those teams still don't talk. Now: I'm pretty sure the Adwords/Admob editors are already on guard for non family friendly ads. Although, Google has been fined for profiting from pharmaceutical ads that were illegal and against their stated policy. I'm not sure they are on guard yet for ads that look like system dialogs, etc. You might be able to get your competitors apps banned by targeting his apps with one of those. If anything slips through, you are responsible, not Admob. Nathan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/android-discuss/-/yPP9f_dzBE8J. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en.
