Google announces support for Ukraine by giving $2M in Adwords credit

[forcer]

Ask your friends at Google to explain this joke donation of Adwords credit: https://www.androidcentral.com/google-response-ukraine-invasion

Ukraine needs real support not using this crisis to push your product!

If you want to make a statement switch off Google services in Russia. That is how revolutions are started!

Google makes less than %0.3 of their total revenue in Russia. Surely that is worth a sacrifice to end this unfair war and tell Russia they cannot invade their neighbors!

[stonekyx]

Ten years ago I was trying to get a job in Google as hard as I could, but these years there are just less and less reasons to even consider applying. I mean, OK, their business model is built around advertisement, but seriously?

[morelisp]

So let's be clear about what "donated adwords" means: It means if someone searches for "ukraine refugee help" they're going to get useful results about how to find help as a Ukrainian refugee or give aid to them; rather than a scam, Russian propaganda, or just whoever bid highest.

That should be table stakes of a search engine, not a laudable charitable donation.

[thiscatis]

What a sad excuse of a company Google has become.

[RicCo386]

Ha ha ha. If they would suspend Russian trolls, that would be more worthy...

And yet they suspend pro Ukrainian YT accounts ...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30467384

[sergiotapia]

Such a Gavin Belson and Hooli move.

[PenguinCoder]

Is this a legitimate, poorly executed joke? Or a legitimate offer from Google. Fucking disgusting.

[IYasha]

Where were they when <I'd probably be redflagged for naming> certain mid-east countries were attacked?? :-| Such a show-off.

[Pigalowda]

A pittance from a gigantic American corporation. I’m sure Ukraine appreciates this advertisement for Google. I guess it’s hard to advertise over all the “noise” of geopolitical events unless you attach your product to it.

[inospeak1]

I don't see any reference to this on the internet other than this post. The link posted -> https://www.androidcentral.com/google-response-ukraine-invas...

says nothing about Adwords credit.

And I am surprised none of the commenters so far have noticed this...?

[soulchild37]

https://twitter.com/googleeurope/status/1497312501020696578?...

[inospeak1]

Thanks! Had to give google the benefit of the doubt (even though I don't like them) because this sounded absurd.

[1-6]

Twitter posts are sometimes segmented, here’s better context for reference (when started from the top): https://twitter.com/googleeurope/status/1497312445303513094?...

[endisneigh]

No good deed goes unpunished

[yrgulation]

Pull out of russia google otherwise its just virtue signalling.

[aeternum]

Remember when Google's motto was "Do no evil". Did they get rid of that?

[IYasha]

It was "Don't be evil" - and, yes, they've removed it :D

[CPLX]

It’s the least they could do.

[techdragon]

The least they could do was nothing… this is just a little better than that. This isn’t 2 million of useful cash money, it’s -2 million of revenue. It sort of feels “cheap” to me.

And I’m wondering how senior the management chain has to be to approve something this large? Are we talking C suite? Or like Vice President of AdWords European business marketing division ?

[klyrs]

More cynically, it's a $2M thumb on the scale of an auction, and if somebody wants to outbid the relevant keywords, that's pure profit.

[burntoutfire]

Any decision with political ramifications surely needs to go through the highest echelons.

[morelisp]

"Good" news, this is unlikely to have any political ramifications.

[SkyLinx]

$2M total? That's literally pennies for them. LOL

[infinitone]

This HAS to be a joke right?

[thunkshift1]

The fuck