[woogley]

There's some conjecture involved but I would be very surprised if Google actually sold AdWords for their own browser.

[anon1385]

They certainly have done in the past: http://i.imgur.com/yVIMYKO.png

Taken from a comment I wrote a couple of years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7335401

[ceejayoz]

Deliberately? No, of course not.

They can't just ban the word "Chrome" from AdWords, though. Spammers/malware authors are very good at figuring out what's needed to slip through the automated systems.

[MichaelGG]

They've done this for Skype too. And the funnier thing is when I reported it to Skype, they claimed it was "OK" because it said TOM in the description (Skype's Chinese sponsor). Except the link did not have anything to do with Skype or TOM.

[nitrogen]

Also important tools like PuTTY.