So let's be clear about what "donated adwords" means: It means if someone searches for "ukraine refugee help" they're going to get useful results about how to find help as a Ukrainian refugee or give aid to them; rather than a scam, Russian propaganda, or just whoever bid highest.
That should be table stakes of a search engine, not a laudable charitable donation.
What a sad excuse of a company Google has become.
Ha ha ha. If they would suspend Russian trolls, that would be more worthy...
And yet they suspend pro Ukrainian YT accounts ...
Such a Gavin Belson and Hooli move.
Is this a legitimate, poorly executed joke? Or a legitimate offer from Google. Fucking disgusting.
Where were they when <I'd probably be redflagged for naming> certain mid-east countries were attacked?? :-| Such a show-off.
A pittance from a gigantic American corporation. I’m sure Ukraine appreciates this advertisement for Google. I guess it’s hard to advertise over all the “noise” of geopolitical events unless you attach your product to it.
I don't see any reference to this on the internet other than this post. The link posted -> https://www.androidcentral.com/google-response-ukraine-invas...
says nothing about Adwords credit.
And I am surprised none of the commenters so far have noticed this...?
No good deed goes unpunished
Pull out of russia google otherwise its just virtue signalling.
Remember when Google's motto was "Do no evil". Did they get rid of that?
It’s the least they could do.
$2M total? That's literally pennies for them. LOL
This HAS to be a joke right?
The fuck
Ten years ago I was trying to get a job in Google as hard as I could, but these years there are just less and less reasons to even consider applying. I mean, OK, their business model is built around advertisement, but seriously?