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Search Engines Advertising for Gambling Sites in Australia

Search engines in Australia are under fire after what appears to be their disobeying of laws governing gambling on the internet.  Investigations are currently underway, looking into allegations that several major Australian search engines, including Google Australia and Web Wombat, have been illegally advertising for online casinos and other online gambling websites.

The Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts is looking into the matter, and stated that a full investigation was underway.  In regards to online advertising for gaming sites, the practice is illegal as spelled out by Australian law.  However, what many suspect is happening is that search engines like Google will display online gambling advertising links when users misspell gambling keywords.  For instance, there will be no advertising links to come up when an online surfer types in "online casinos" (one of the biggest internet gambling keywords there is).  However, when a user inadvertently types in "online casions" (which many people surprisingly do) several online gambling advertisements show up.

Whether this is a loophole that cannot call for prosecution remains to be seen.  If it does pass that these search engines were knowingly and blatantly breaking the law, they can be fined over $1 million each day.  If individuals are found to be responsible (like self-promoting hackers), they can be fined up to $220,000 for each day documented of breaking the internet regulations.  For some time, the same practice was suspected of happening in the U.S., where online advertising for online casino sites could result in very stiff governmental penalties.

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