The Fashion Industry Fights Makers of Fake Designer Bags and Accessories
Try searching for Louis Vuitton or any other august fashion stalwart on Google, and a lot of the time, you’ll find near the top of your results, a tempting set of offers for fine designer stuff at unbelievable discounts. You could consider yourself unlucky if you didn’t see anything going for less than half off. Try to think about that you are actually going into the florist’s to choose your Flower Delivery Vancouver and, once you have chosen the colors, forms of flowers, or occasion, try to picture the contemporary flower bouquet in your head. There’s just a little problem. It isn’t really 50% off on Louis Vuitton bags – it’s just on stuff that happens to look like it – fake fashion. This situation alone – that the fashion majors should have that deal with ripoffs like this, is bad enough. But adding insult to injury, any time a fashion major tries to get the most out of Google search by using its brand name as a keyword, it finds that cyber squatters have gone and bought those keywords already, to get their names up for their fake designer bags and other merchandise.
In fact, things have gotten so bad that companies that get the short end of the stick in the fake business have been appealing to Google to stop giving out registered keywords for sale to unauthorized people. And the courts in Europe are set to rule on whether what Google does is even legal. The entire modern business model the world has of using the Internet as an advertising vehicle could go down the tubes if things were allowed to run this way. It’s not like American fashion houses have let this go lightly either. Vancouver Flower Delivery to most international locations with no problem by means of Native Street. There have been lawsuits, and Google has paid money to settle out of court. So there is no clear legal precedent that anyone has been able to see yet. Google feels it does take a reasonable level of care with its whole keyword reservation system on AdWords. It doesn’t allow any unauthorized advertiser to use registered trademarks on the content on a fake website. And when it finds a website selling fake designer bags or other fake merchandise, if the real company complains, Google will stop listing that website. They thought this was enough.
