Blogoscoped: AdWords Germany Without Adult Content

Google announced that it will make adult-oriented messages on its AdWords advertising system verboten for Germans. The policy is surprising less for its eschewing of the lucrative adult business, and more for the fact that Google came out explicitly with a written guideline.

An English translation: "Beginning November 2004, German users (indicated by IP address) will be disallowed from including in ads any pornography, eroticism or other explicitly sexual content…"