Tuesday, May 25, 2010 3:10 PM/EST
How do you counter criticism that you are a greedy giant that likes to pummel user privacy for profit? Show you can be open and then show how much money companies are making because of your products. Google did both this week.
Monday, March 08, 2010 2:07 PM/EST
Steve Lee, the product manager for Google Latitude and Google Maps for Mobile, said Google is experimenting with new location-based ad formats. This includes a banner ad format that surfaces all of the local Taco Bell restaurants when users search for tacos.
Thursday, January 21, 2010 12:01 PM/EST
Google AdWords publishers showing ads on mobile devices with full Web browsers can now target based on Android, Apple iPhone or Palm WebOS devices and carriers simply by checking a box. Google is also trying to broaden the reach of the ads it serves to its tens of millions of Gmail users.
Friday, April 03, 2009 10:35 AM/EST
There actually is a deal in place between Google and Twitter, but it's not an acquisition (contrary to a report by Techcrunch). Google is selling marketers a service that streams their five most recent Tweets across the AdSense network. Intuit,...
Wednesday, March 25, 2009 5:53 PM/EST
If you set aside DoubleClick and Postini, which were hardly startups when Google picked them up to respectively dominate ad serving and shore up its e-mail offering, do the startups that Google buys just disappear?
Monday, March 23, 2009 10:07 AM/EST
Microsoft is closing its adCenter analytics beta. The adCenter community blog is trying to put on a brave face, but this has to be considered a gigantic failure and a huge win for Google and Omniture. The insights you've contributed...
Saturday, January 26, 2008 2:24 PM/EST
Google next month will add technology to its AdSense program that detects domain kiting, a practice many experts in the domain registration space view as questionable as it is profitable...
Tuesday, August 28, 2007 9:30 AM/EST
The cash cow keeps getting healthier. CNN.com has agreed to join Google's AdSense advertising program, which has made the search vendor the multibillion-dollar Internet ad realtor it is...
Friday, December 15, 2006 1:25 PM/EST
A Colorado judge yesterday dismissed with prejudice a lawsuit against Yahoo, in which Yahoo was sued for allegedly using a company's trademarked terms in Google AdWords.
Monday, December 11, 2006 3:55 PM/EST
Google's business manager for trust and safety, Shuman Ghosemajumder, sat down with Andy Beal over at Marketing Pilgrim and showed him some pretty graphs that said click fraud only represents 2 percent of all clicks. Andy then copied these...