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I was trying to advertise a 1939 book written by Peter Kelder who said to have discovered the secret of Himalayan Monastery monks on how they could maintain a youthful body. To my disappointment, the ad was disapproved. Below I quote the disapproval reason emailed automatically to me by Google Adwords based in Ireland. "Disapproval Reason ==================== Prescription Drug Targeting: Google believes strongly in freedom of expression and therefore offers broad access to content across the Internet without censoring search results. However, Google policy does not allow AdWords ads for prescription drugs to be displayed outside the U.S. or Canada. Pharmacies based in Australia, Brazil, Germany, New Zealand, the Netherlands, the Republic of Ireland, Hong Kong, China, Taiwan and the UK can advertise their services in their respective countries only under certain conditions." I wondered where they got the idea that I was trying to sell a drug -- prescription or otherw...

I was not surprised that the most Googled word was SEX. That would be easy to guess. Does that mean that more people are thinking about sex than money? Well, there's nothing wrong about sex. It is just misunderstood especially in countries where people look at it as a "bad" or forbidden thing. Maybe, that explains why Egypt, India and Turkey are the world's top user of the keyword "sex". For people where sex is forbidden in their homes or society, the Internet has become the window to their freedom to explore the forbidden hot stuff in the privacy of their rooms. For them the Internet is a gift. Good news or bad news? Good for them if they will look at the "it" word in a positive context. Bad, if it will result to a vicious act. The Internet may be a source of both good and bad materials regarding the subject. To determine which pages are good or bad is a complicated thing. I'll leave that to your own judgment. As of this writing, there are abo...