Google saves health advertisers from ‘Sicko’

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The blogosphere is aghast at Google for pandering to the insurance industry with this Google Health Advertising Blog entry. Ostensibly a review of Michael Moore’s Sicko, the item culminates in an impassioned plea for healthcare advertisers to combat negative press from the film by buying ads on Google. The writer really does go on: “We can place text ads, video ads and rich media ads in paid search results or in relevant Web sites within our ever-expanding content network.

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