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WorksWithU.com; By Christopher Tozzi 		Mail this story
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I wanted to view the Wikipedia article on OpenOffice recently, so I googled ‘openoffice’, correctly assuming that the link I was looking for would be near the top of the results. While doing this, I noticed that a Google query for OpenOffice also turns up a couple of paid sponsored links. But can you trust the links and associated downloads? Here are some thoughts.

I wanted to view the Wikipedia article on OpenOffice recently, so I googled ‘openoffice’, correctly assuming that the link I was looking for would be near the top of the results. While doing this, I noticed that a Google query for OpenOffice also turns up a couple of paid sponsored links. But can you trust the links and associated downloads? Here are some thoughts.

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Sander_Marechal ·
Mozilla and Sun should have those ads removed. It shouldn't be hard. Squatting on someone else's trademark is against Google's ad policies.

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