Google’s motto may be ‘Don’t be evil’, but when you are helping to funnel illegal drugs into the country that kind of puts you on the wrong side of the law. Oh, Google wasn’t smuggling crack cocaine – but allowing AdWords campaigns to run that were promoting Canadian pharmacies that sold and delivered pharmaceuticals into [...]
Google Credit? BUST.
July 24th, 2011The news that Google Inc. was offering a credit card created a major stir in the online world as soon as the news broke – Then people read the rest of the story as Paul Harvey would say. While the initial blast of information regarding competitive interest rates, high credit limits and no annual fee [...]
Google Shutting Down AdWords Reseller Program
April 2nd, 2010Are AdWords Resellers Out of Luck? It’s a week that sees the ending of programs offered by various search Engines. Yahoo announced the shuttering of their YPN beta program, and now Google is apparently getting rid of their affiliate AdWords Program. According to Screenwerk (Greg Sterling’s WordPress blog, considered by many, including Search Engine Land [...]
Google Wins in France
March 23rd, 2010France Leads The EU in Objecting to Google The AdWords trademark issue went before the highest authorities in France, but this time Search Engine Google came out on the top of the heap. According to Search Engine Land: European luxury goods maker LVMH (Luis Vuitton) sued Google in France over its AdWords policy allowing third [...]
Google Changes Ad Serving
February 24th, 2010According to Google, the not quite 2 year old Ad Manager is being retired. Instead Doubleclick (acquired in 2008) will be carrying the load. From the Google Blog: The upgraded DFP includes a wide variety of features that will help publishers to get the most value out of their online content: A new interface that [...]
