The forfeiture is one of the largest ever in the United States, according to the department. It represents Google's revenue from Canadian pharmacy advertisements to U.S. customers through Google's AdWords program and Canadian pharmacies' revenue from U.S. sales.
Google had previously set aside that amount for a possible settlement over its advertising practices, according to a regulatory filing in May.
Google, the world's No. 1 Internet search engine, had $29 billion in gross revenue in 2010.
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I dunno, there's laws and there's laws that shouldn't exist in the first place.
A law that stops international companies advertising in the USA to protect their local carters? I'm not sure it's so evil to break that law ... e.g. see some of the comments now on the article.
Akin to Australia banning book imports and then fining an advertising company for running adverts from the UK.
Now, the fact that google and all of these other pan-nationals never seem to pay any tax, that's evil.
Think the evil might have been that some of the Canadian drug companies did not require a prescription for many of the powerful medicines that they were shipping to online customers.
Therefore these drugs may have been inapproprate for the consumer requesting them or may have even been requested to backdoor sell-on for profit.
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