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Paul Haddad (@tapbot_paul) recently posted a screenshot showing a search for "twitter" with results for the official Twitter app being below an ad for an app that allows you to buy followers. He entitled it "Pretty much what I figured would happen." This is not only an issue for big companies like Twitter, but it is an even bigger issue for small indie developers like my company. We have worked hard to build a brand and user base. Now, with Search Ads, anybody can draft off of our efforts, and pay for their app to be listed above our app in search results. We don't get a dime of that revenue. A company with lots of funding could potentially cut our download rate in half, since most of our downloads are due to personal reocmmendations. Simply stated, Apple should allow us to submit our trademarks and have those trademarks banished from use by Search Ads. Do you agree? How do we give feedback to Apple to ask them to have Search Ads respect trademarks? Steve KusmerAbvio