[the_duke]

In Austria, you are not contractually capable until you are 14, and from 14-18 you are so only in a limited fashion, as allowed by the assets available to you.

Probably Spain has similar laws (age of majority is 18 in Spain), making the whole AdWords contract invalid. So there would not have been any way for Google to get the money.

So this most likely wasn't anything 'charitable' done by Google, just the law.

Nothing to see here, move along...

[uola]

Yes and they (and other companies) don't exactly have the best record on this type of thing.

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2602255/legal/google-to...

[wslh]

You just gave me a good idea to save a lot of money in ads: Mechanical Turk for kids... just kidding!

[Cyph0n]

Yeah back to the 19th century we go. People love old school stuff, so VCs will probably fund the shit out of it :p