Google is essentially an advertising company. Advertising revenue drives most of the company’s activities, but its policies around advertisers has led to them getting into “hot water” in the past. Why? Because “bad actors” try to abuse Google Adwords to promote counterfeit goods, scams and a range of other illegal or misleading activities. As part […]
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Yahoo! And Bing To Launch Google Adsense Competitor
In the world of “contextual advertising” ie. where ads are displayed based on a web page’s content, Google’s Adsense has dominated the market for the last decade. While there have been several attempts by other companies to compete in the space, none of the offerings to date have managed to hit the “critical mass” to […]
Google Dumping Adsense For Feeds
Google, like a lot of big companies, constantly revise their product and service offering. The latest product to get the chop is “Adsense for feeds” Adsense for feeds allows bloggers to place adverts directly into their RSS feeds and earn money from it. I’ve no idea how much money some of the bigger blogs were […]