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by michael_h 3723 days ago
Why stop there? When a site contains the offending ads, push them down to page four of the results. The ads will disappear in a matter of days.
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So, punish companies for using AdSense, one of Google's core services? As many have pointed out here, AdSense is a big contributor to these ads. It seems it would be pretty easy to weed out on the AdSense platform, since they have to be bidding on "download" as a keyword to be assigned to that page.
Finally a way for startups to compete with Google, when Google has to move all of their sites (YouTube, Blogger, etc) 4 pages down.
I assumed this is already the case, but it it isn't, it is an awesome idea!