http://www.clickz.com/news/article.php/3346461A Southern California t-shirt company, which says its AdWords ads were rejected by Google, has accused the search company of stifling free speech.
The company, Y-Que, is known for politically incorrect and humorous t-shirts. At issue, according to owner Bill Wyatt's posts on the site, are the company's attempts to buy Google AdWords ads that point to its site, where it sells t-shirts criticizing President Bush and Vice President Cheney, and even one taking aim at Democratic challenger John Kerry. ...snip...
Wyatt posted a letter he says Google sent him, which says he must remove certain merchandise from his site to continue advertising with AdWords. The search company cited the following merchandise: "Recall Bush - White T-shirt (with radio control on head); Dumb and Dumber White T-shirt - Bush and Blair: The Movie; You're Fired - George W. Bush White T-shirt; Dump Cheney White T-shirt - "Halliburton" tattooed across head; Miserable Failure T-shirt - George W. Bush; Kerry sucks (too) - T-shirt."
Interestingly, the "Miserable Failure" t-shirt refers to a Google-centric incident in which anti-Bush Web activists conspired to create a "Google bomb." By linking the words "miserable failure" to Bush's biography on the White House Web site, they manipulated Google's search results so the biography was returned as a result when someone searched under those keywords. Wonder if Google is doing the same for Ann Coulter books?