Hi YWROADRUNNER,

Thanks for bringing this to our attention. When we tuned our Google Adwords advertising, we blocked out many advertising opportunities that did not fit with the mission of CR4. We did not, however, think of runonwater.com and the like. We're working with our agent to get them removed. Let us know if you see any similarly untoward ads and we'll get them out as well.

Best wishes,
- Chris

Hmm, I think it would make for an interesting topic to retain these adds but only on pages where they are discussed, and if they present an erroneous premise they can be debunked. This would allow the manufacturers to support the science behind their product, if it is possible. It would be like a mythbuster blog page.

Hello Chris
Thank you for your reply, it seems like the bots can sniff out a advertising opportunity. I think it's great that you try and avoid this type of advertising. I know when googling some subjects that this pseudo scientific advertising shows up on other technical/scientific sites. In fact have recently run into some very good information but I was embarrassed to post the link to the site that I found it on because of the technobabble advertising.

I still think a scam busters section could be great fun, and good advertising for the site.

Censorship anyone?

Blue

So Blue, if you ran a site like this you would accept paid advertising from anyone?

Hello Chris: seems blues comment is a mute point. There back. Any time there's a discussion about these hydrogen devices the Google bot's seem to sniff out the page.

http://cr4.globalspec.com/thread/22311#newcomments

just thought you might like to know.

This is a legal and acceptable form of censorship, much like you as a parent are allowed to censor the content your children read such that they are not reading some extremely graphic pornography. The owners of any site can censor the content, since it is their property. If you don't want any form of censorship, then the marketers would have to fully disclose everything about there products, since they censor their marketing efforts to promote their own sales. I would suspect this would adversely effect your sales of your product, if you had to tell everyone absolutely everything you know about the product. We should expect companies to censor their sites, at a minimum to reduce waste of their hard storage capacity and trivial junk that would drive the target market away.