Legal warning!
Diviners everywhere, beware. One of my Adwords ads for the I Ching course was just suspended by Google.
The ad reads:
“I Ching Home Study Course
Develop confidence in your own
understanding of the oracle”
Ad Status: Suspended - Pending Revision
SUGGESTIONS:
-> Ad Content: Please remove the following trademark from your
ad: “Oracle”.
The mind boggles.
February 3rd, 2007 at 12:57 pm
Greetings,
my understanding of the situation tells me that the present day minds know oracle as a computer language or to b more braod some financial tool developed with it.May b it will take time for these young Minds(or can i say souls)to have space for greater meanings as found in I ching.
pl let me hav ur views.
subramani.n
February 3rd, 2007 at 1:22 pm
Yes, no doubt that was it. I just found it very funny. But in fact I contacted Google, and they’re duly apologetic and will reinstate the ad. Maybe someone’ll even click it this time.
February 4th, 2007 at 7:55 pm
Hi Hillary and Everybody - soon every word in all languages will be corporately owned - I’m sure of it! Well not entirely sure thankfully.
Cameron
February 5th, 2007 at 4:30 pm
Don’t worry, Hilary, you can borrow our Spanish “oráculo” or better yet, use Latin: “oracÅlum”…
As Cameron suggests, common words are becoming commodities… We better start developing telepathic abilities soon or there will be a lot of liability going around… lol!
L
February 5th, 2007 at 4:32 pm
BTW, I just discovered that somebody registered http://www.oraculum.com/ and is for sale…
L
February 10th, 2007 at 7:02 pm
Oracle is trademarked? Yeesh!
I just made an I Ching Or-a-cle Coin Caster at luckyhonu.com.
Would you mind trying it out for me?
Thanks!
February 10th, 2007 at 7:33 pm
Shall we go halves on our legal defence bill?
It’s a very neat-looking oracle, I like the way it ends up putting the question and answer together on screen. Nice turtle, too. Does it ever generate moving lines, though?
March 27th, 2007 at 8:38 pm
Hi there! Thanks for taking the time to go look! It does show the hexagrams before & after of the moving lines, but I haven’t added anything about the moving lines themselves for the bloggable results. (The answer would just be so long!) But I might add that as a feature for you just to read with your results on the website at some point.
-Meg