Google Partners With Luxury Giant LVMH To Fight Counterfeits Online

You'll have to get your fake Louis Vuitton bags elsewhere.

Over the past decade, the counterfeit handbag market outgrew the shadowy corners of New York City's Canal Street and eventually came to stake out a prominent place online--in Google's advertising machine. A 2005 French ruling found Google guilty of making it easy for counterfeiters to purchase trademarked Adwords belonging to big luxury brands. These would then point consumers to websites where they could buy imitation goods.

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