Back in December, Google promised to tackle the issue of piracy sites: We will prevent terms that are closely associated with piracy from appearing in Autocomplete. While it’s hard to know for sure when search terms are being used to find infringing content, we’ll do our best to prevent Autocomplete from displaying the terms most [...]
Arrrr, Matey! Pirate Terms Walk the Google Plank
January 29th, 2011The Google Adsense Split Reveal
May 24th, 2010Finally for those who have been insisting for years that the exact amount that Google pays out in Adsense to publishers who place ads on Google’s network be revealed, the answer is out there for all to see. Transparent at long last for folks who have been dying to crunch the numbers. Eric Schmidt told [...]
Google to Reveal AdSense Split?
February 1st, 2010Four months ago, Google CEO Eric Schmidt told Search Engine Land that Google was preparing to become more transparent about how AdSense really works. “Ninety percent of people seem to be quite happy with that [few details disclosed], because revenue keeps going up. And 10 percent want much, much more information for god-knows-whatever reasons,” Schmidt [...]
Google Feedburner Now Defaulting to 301 Redirects
October 1st, 2009As of today we are changing this to be a “301 Permanent Redirect” because we’ve looked at the traffic enough to tell that there some benefit to changing this to a “301 Permanent Redirect” – in that some search engines that index the feeds themselves will consider these to be additional links that should be [...]
Pirate Sites with Google Ads?
January 21st, 2009Isohunt – a BitTorrent search engine and notorious Canadian file sharing site – has been discovered to be displaying Google AdWords / AdSense text ads! The Norwegian media store Platekompaniet was one of the first to report the violation, followed quickly by other companies belong to the record business; among them Sony BMG. The entire [...]













