Google admits profiting from illegal Olympic ticket ads

How is that different than any company selling a product and someone using it for something illegal?

As in "Wal-mart profits from illegal baseball bats." Bats used for vandalism or assault.

The title could just have easily been "Google promptly takes down ads for counterfeit olympics tickets". How could they possibly have known that the ad purchaser was selling fake tickets?

Google only took anything down "promptly" after being contacted by the BBC. The article also describes how Googles complaint procedure for mere mortals gets you nothing but an auto-reply bot.

About as sensationalist a title as the recent 'Woman in distress, nipple falls off' I've seen by a local paper.

Inflammatory title, flagged.

Regarding the Olympic ticket thing, from what I can tell the tickets weren't fake, it's just a contrived law that you can't resell Olympic tickets.