May 9, 2009. A search on Google.com for “dog skin” (in Chinese) yields a sponsored AdWords text ad for “dog skin”, or “dog fur” (the two words are the same in Chinese). In the poster above, you can see the search result with the AdWords ad.
Clicking on the advertisement takes you to Alibaba.com’s “dog skin/fur” section, where one can find dozens of sellers of dog skins, each of whom can provide thousands of skins.
Among the many photos one finds on that first page (of dog skins, dogs in pens awaiting their fate, skinned torsos hanging on hooks, etc), you will see the the photo in the poster above, of a pile of dog skins.
Before publishing this post, I tried the search several times. Each time yielded the same AdWords ad for “dog skin” and the page the ad referred to continued to show the same results, including this particular seller.
I’d seen the photo several times before I started to see a telling detail.
At the bottom of the photo, you can see the head and upper torso of a puppy.
Likely buried under his or her own mother’s skin, this puppy’s corpse skin-for-sale is a SINGLE “AdWords” CLICK away from Google.com’s home page (Not Google.cn, mind you. I searched in Chinese on GOOGLE.com, which, the last time I checked, is an American company.)
Such an advertisement would be illegal in the USA. (See the statute which outlaws dog and cat fur. Also see the HSUS’s page on this issue.)
Google, we implore you stop advertising fur!!!
If you doubt Google profits from dog or cat skins, look in the header and ask yourself what you see. This is a WYSIWYG campaign. ("What You See Is What You Get.") 
3 responses so far ↓
1 Teddy Milton // May 9, 2009 at 1:34 pm
Disgraceful. Google needs to stop this right now. I have already stopped using their services, and I encourage you to do the same until this kind of content is banned from ALL Google services.
2 duke // May 10, 2009 at 6:51 am
Thanks, Teddy for commenting. I’m not sure when Google is going to stop, but I’ve been tracking this for a year now, and the situation is getting WORSE, not better.
Google could do tremendous good for many life forms on the planet if they simply banned fur.
3 Kiara // Nov 7, 2009 at 9:31 pm
google is a sick and twisted company. I came across this site while doing research for a school assignment and was absolutely disgusted. It makes me wonder if they have any heart at all. People need to rescue these poor animals, they shouldnt be put through this. How would they were kept in small dirty cages then skinned alive. if google stopped advertising this then maybe they would get more google users.
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