{"id":226,"date":"2007-05-22T19:45:25","date_gmt":"2007-05-22T18:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?p=226"},"modified":"2007-05-22T19:45:25","modified_gmt":"2007-05-22T18:45:25","slug":"google-bans-essay-ads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/226-google-bans-essay-ads.html","title":{"rendered":"Google bans essay ads"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>The BBC reports that <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/education\/6680457.stm\" target=\"_blank\">Google will ban essay adverts<\/a>. I knew this was&nbsp;a problem but hadn&#8217;t appreciated how severe it is:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/images\/google-essays.gif\"> <\/p>\n<p>Banning the ads strikes me as sensible, but won&#8217;t students simply perform a search instead? Google could also block the searches, but that&#8217;s censorship and has difficulties of its own.<\/p>\n<p>The internet has made both paid and unpaid plagiarism too easy; but there has always been a fine line between plagiarism and research (a song by&nbsp;Tom Lehrer comes to mind). Perhaps it is time&nbsp;to change the way students are assessed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"wlWriterSmartContent\" id=\"0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:742f7dc1-a16a-4a57-a239-fb4359824f8e\" contenteditable=\"false\" style=\"padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px\">Technorati tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/google\" rel=\"tag\">google<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/essays\" rel=\"tag\">essays<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/internet\" rel=\"tag\">internet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC reports that Google will ban essay adverts. I knew this was&nbsp;a problem but hadn&#8217;t appreciated how severe it is: Banning the ads strikes me as sensible, but won&#8217;t students simply perform a search instead? Google could also block the searches, but that&#8217;s censorship and has difficulties of its own. The internet has made &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/226-google-bans-essay-ads.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Google bans essay ads<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-search"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}