Since vendors can pay to have their sites come to the
top of the list for specific keyword searches (a form
of ad), maybe that's what happened here. If so, it
would seem that Google has a responsibility to reverse
this and the matter not dropped.
Google's ad policy states:
Site may not include:
* Excessive profanity
* Hate, violence, racial intolerance, or advocate
against any individual, group, or organization
* Hacking/cracking content
* Illicit drugs and drug paraphernalia
* Pornography, adult, or mature content
* Gambling or casino-related content
* Excessive advertising
* Pop-ups, pop-unders or exit windows that
interfere with site navigation, obscure AdWords ads,
change user preferences, or are for downloads. Other
types of pop-ups, pop-unders, or exit windows may be
allowed, provided that they do not exceed a combined
total of 5 per user session
* Deceptive or manipulative content or
construction to improve your site's search engine
ranking, e.g., your site's PageRank
or
Perhaps since there are a large number of instances of
the word packed within a relatively small amount of
text, Google's search algorithm defines that site as
having the highest relevance for the word and displays
that site first.
Ellen Zyroff
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