TheTarget

Despite of the bad connotation usually seen with companies that base its business on advertising, many of them can survive public critisism and actually enjoy of a good reputation – such as Google. That said, it's a bit shocking to hear of a Senator from South Carolina propose that search engines returning links based on advertising partners rather than content relevance have severe penalties applied to them – including monetary fines in the millions of dollars and even jailtime for the CEOs behind the companies!