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Google Is Merging Mobile Ad Units into the Regular AdSense

The mobile web is coming into its own, it's no longer a promise, it's here. What's more, while the mobile web still warrants its name, lines are getting blurred. Smartphones can display full websites, albeit not ideally, and the increasing number of device sizes, from 3-inch phones to 10-inch tablets, ...

16 February 2012
07:41 GMT

Google Debuts Adaptable Ads for Websites That Work on Desktops, Tablets and Phones

Google's bread and butter is advertising. While it's gotten itself in anything related to the web and beyond with things like Android or Google TV, most of its money comes from advertising. Obviously, it has a big interest in keeping its ads competitive. With the mobile web exploding in usage, Google is ad...

16 January 2012
09:51 GMT

Google to Drop AdMob Mobile Web Ads, Tells Advertisers to Use AdSense Instead

Google has been very bullish on mobile advertising as the company thinks, perhaps rightfully so, that the mobile web is the new frontier. It's been working on several of its own ad products for mobile devices, but it also bought AdMeld, in a somewhat controversial acquisition, which also offered several mobile a...

5 September 2011
13:21 GMT

Google Will Introduce Phone Support for Advertisers and Publishers

In a sign, perhaps, of the changing tides at Google, the company has confirmed that it will be debuting full phone support for all advertisers using the AdSense network. This has always been a sore spot for Google and a criticism, but ditching traditional phone support was one of the ways the company was able to scal...

4 June 2011
07:40 GMT

Google Makes It Easier to Report Counterfeiters in AdSense

Google's bread and butter is still its advertising business and it's no surprise that it wants to keep as safe as possible. While Google would be happy to take most people's money for ads, it's increasing efforts to weed out counterfeiters, if only to stave off brands coming down hard on Google fo...

15 March 2011
14:02 GMT

New Google AdSense Interface Gets a Big Update

Google may be known for its fast pace, but that's not exactly true with AdSense, one of its main money makers, where it's taking it nice and slow. A revamped interface has been in testing for more than a year now and it is still getting updates and tweaks. The latest comes with several changes based on user...

13 January 2011
11:27 GMT

Google Phases Out 'Sponsored Links' in Favor of the Simpler 'Ads'

Google has now finished rolling out a mostly cosmetic change but an important one nonetheless. The paid search results on Google.com are now labeled as "Ads" rather than "Sponsored links." This doesn't change anything in the way the ads are picked or displayed, but it's an interesting change if only because...

6 November 2010
07:32 GMT

Twitter Promoted Tweets Show Up on Google Search

In a landmark move for both companies, Twitter's Promoted Tweets are now being served in Google real-time search results. This is the first time Google has allowed another ad network to display ads on its search engine. This is also probably the first time Promoted Tweets, the search version, have been made avai...

4 November 2010
06:36 GMT

Google Revamps AdSense Ad Unit Layouts

Google is announcing that it is revamping some of the AdSense ad units introducing a new layout which should make them easier to read and understand. The changes are not revolutionary, nobody expected that, but the tweaks should make the ads stand out and make the actual info easier to spot. “We're excited...

10 August 2010
05:19 GMT

Google AdSense Revenue Split Is 68 to 32 Percent

Google’s advertising programs have been highly successful for the company and helped it become the giant it is today, a little over a decade after it launched. The biggest share of its ad revenue comes from its search engine, but a significant part also comes from the ads it serves on third-party sites. The AdS...

24 May 2010
11:28 GMT

Google Is More Lenient with the 'Family-Safe' Content in Ads

In the good old days, Google made a big breakthrough with very simple yet effective text-only ads. These ads showing up for relevant searches made Google into the tech giant it is today. Over time, though, the company has started to diversify its offering while, thankfully, maintaining its clean approach to advertis...

5 January 2010
10:56 GMT

Google Cuts Down on Gifts to Partners, Donates to Charity

Every year for the past few, Google has rewarded its AdSense and AdWords customers with all sorts of gifts ranging from memory cards to coffee mugs. In the early days, the company would get pretty generous with its gifts but this year, it remained quiet for a while, leading many to ask whether the economy hadn't...

22 December 2009
11:46 GMT

Google's Targeted Ads Prove Surprisingly Unpopular

Google's bread and butter is online advertising. The company makes a large percentage of its revenue from ads so it's no surprise that it takes the business very seriously. One promising feature introduced more than half a year ago, targeted ads, looked poised to be the next big thing in online marketing bu...

31 October 2009
06:09 GMT

Google Enables Larger Ads on Smartphones

The smartphone market, despite being the center of attention on the mobile front, is still very small compared with the mobile market as a whole and the revenue from apps and services targeted at smartphones, though increasing exponentially, is still rather insignificant overall. But there are those who are looking a...

5 October 2009
11:36 GMT

Google Introduces YouTube Promoted Videos Through AdSense

Google is launching an interesting new ad unit that will incorporate promoted videos from YouTube. The fresh AdSense ad units will run along text and display ads and will compete with them in the automated ad auctions. Google already offers a form of video ads through its AdSense program but the new product won'...

3 October 2009
06:35 GMT

Google Loses Another Ad Sales Exec

Google may be weathering the economic downturn better than most companies, certainly better than many of its size, but it doesn't mean it couldn't do better. As the company continues to go through a, mostly unwanted, reshuffling of its sales and advertising department execs, it looks like another high-profi...

3 September 2009
03:40 GMT

Google to Allow Third-Party Ad Networks to Use AdSense

Google is one of the most open companies out there but at the end of the day it wants to make money just like everyone else so the advertising programs, which generate the overwhelming majority of the search giant's revenue, have been mostly kept close to the chest, with advertisers and users presented with a pr...

27 August 2009
09:13 GMT

AdSense to Deploy Improved Contextual Targeted Ads

Google may be a sprawling giant with interests in many different areas but it still makes the overwhelming majority of its revenue from advertising. So, while it may not get much of the spotlight, it takes its advertising products very seriously. The company is now announcing that its affiliate advertising program Ad...

19 August 2009
11:39 GMT

Google to Test 'Product Ads' in Search Pages

Google's AdSense program has evolved over the years but the ads on the Google search page, arguably the company's hottest real-estate, haven't moved beyond simple text ads. Now, some reports, citing an email sent to certain advertisers, are claiming Google will introduce a new form of ads that it calls...

20 June 2009
10:37 GMT

Facebook Hires Google's Greg Badros

While the vanity URL 'landrush' may be on everyone’s minds, there are still other pieces of news related to the social networking site, and among them there’s the one about the company having just hired Greg Badros to be Director of Engineering.Badros is currently a Google Senior Director of Eng...

13 June 2009
03:37 GMT

How to: Make Money from Google Maps

Google has announced a new feature for the popular mapping service Google Maps today in the form of an ad module. The Maps Ad Unit, as it is called, can be integrated into your existing Google Maps API implementation. The Maps Ad Unit is an optional feature that geo developers and others who use Google Maps on thei...

22 May 2009
10:24 GMT

Google to Monitor Visited Webpages for Ad Serving

The current model by which Google is serving online advertisements is evolving. The Mountain View-based search giant indicated that it was responding to requests from both advertisers and partners with the new move of introducing what it referred to as “interest-based advertising.” What this means is that...

11 March 2009
10:31 GMT

Google Announces AdSense for Mobile Search

A recent post on the Google Mobile Blog announces that Google has added a new AdSense product for all mobile network operators and mobile website owners all over the world. The new AdSense for mobile search offers carriers and mobile publishers a simple and easy way to embed a Google search box on their websites or p...

11 February 2009
06:24 GMT

Microsoft vs. Google in Economic Turmoil

The global financial crisis could, at least as far as online advertising is concerned, be in Microsoft's advantage by destabilizing Google. Compared to the Mountain View-search giant, the Redmond company has little to lose in this arena. But Google, which Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer dubbed a ...

3 November 2008
08:01 GMT

Google Entering In Game Ads Market

Google is entering the videogaming advertising market by launching a program called AdSense for Games which is supposed to deliver ads to PC based videogames. The program is now in open beta stage and all feedback from users is more than welcome by the company.The initial target for AdSense for Games is made up of we...

9 October 2008
04:41 GMT

Startup Claims Google Is Jealous

Google has decided to fall back from a partnership with an eco-friendly startup. A week ago, Google partnered with Forestle, a Germany-based search engine whose purpose is saving the rainforest. All the income originated from ad clicking, except for 5% in administrative costs, was to be delivered to the Nature C...

2 September 2008
05:53 GMT

Google AdSense Integration in Analytics Beta Version

Amit Agarwal reported that screenshots of a beta version of Analytics, which integrates AdSense data, have been noticed in a blog post on TheGoogleCache. The post has since been removed, possibly in an attempt to keep this secret until launch. Nevertheless, the screenshots revealed several new intriguing features tha...

26 August 2008
11:38 GMT

Rogue XP Antivirus 2008 Aggressively Advertised by Google

Links to a rogue security solution, XP Antivirus 2008, are being displayed by Google's AdSense. As we previously reported, AdSense serves malvertizements that make the most unwary of users follow a link and download a piece of software that has nothing to do with its claimed purpose. The rogue antivirus, instead...

25 August 2008
10:24 GMT

AdSense Serves Malvertizements

The biggest advertising serving program in the world, Google's AdSense, jeopardizes people's security, by offering them "malvertizements" - ads that, when clicked, lead users to websites that host malware, rogue security products or other threatening applications. This time, multiple sources have identified...

19 August 2008
11:26 GMT

Google's Integration of DoubleClick Continues to Affect AdSense

An article written by Rajas Moonka, Senior Business Product Manager, and posted today on the Google blog, announces that in the upcoming months the Google content network (AdSense) will benefit from several enhancements based on DoubleClick technology.Several months ago, Google purchased the DoubleClick ad management...

8 August 2008
04:40 GMT

Google Opens Its Content Network to Third Parties

All web masters know that the best way of making a website return initial investments is through online advertising. This actually translates into webmasters letting their website feature advertisements for various products. One of the highest used advertising services is Google's AdWords, which uses a site'...

19 May 2008
10:58 GMT

AdSense Account Shut Down

The Enturbulation website is known for its continuous criticism against the Church of Scientology and Scientology believers. The website receives its earnings from user donations and advertisements placed on their site. Until recently, this Scientology-criticizing website has been a user of Google AdSense but, accord...

15 May 2008
04:17 GMT

Google Sends Private Emails to Wrong Recipients

The Mountain View-based company has once again sent private emails to the wrong people, all of them registered users of AdSense, Google's advertising platform. According to a thread on the WebmasterWorld forum, a few AdSense users have received an email message titled "Important Account Information", that asked ...

13 May 2008
09:21 GMT

Google to Run Illustrated Advertisements on Image Search

Most web surfers are familiar with Google's way of advertising on various web pages. The Google AdWords is a way in which both Google and the sites that subscribe to this service can make money. The AdWords service, which is part of Google's advertisement program, makes use of the content found on a specifi...

8 May 2008
05:46 GMT

Google AdSense for Search Now Features Custom Search

One of Google's products, Custom Search Engine (or short CSE), has recently received an important upgrade. According to a Tuesday post on Google's Custom Search Blog, web developers can create CSEs using their own AdSense accounts. The new upgrade comes to increase the quality of Google services, as more us...

7 May 2008
08:19 GMT

Sticky AdSense

After Yahoo! turned to radio ads, it's Google's turn to step down from the clouds and have a hands-on approach to advertising. And a real sticky one, at that. The Mountain View-based company has decided to morph the traditional 'sticky' internet concept, the quality that entices web users to stick...

21 March 2008
05:08 GMT

AdSense Terms and Conditions Updated

AdSense users are up for some "I Agree" clicking in the near future, if they want to continue using Google's service, as one of the general changes in the terms and conditions is looming around the corner. The development of the Internet, Web 2.0 alongside it, is constantly demanding new technologies and service...

27 February 2008
05:08 GMT

Google Presents Crackers to Its AdSense Results

Searching for anything related to the Chinese new year on the U.S. or China Google homepages will present you with a surprisingly lively display of colors in the traditional and boringly dull white background and blue links display that we've grown accustomed to. There's a new color, red, and some new shape...

6 February 2008
12:31 GMT

Gmail and AdSense Login Error!

Google reported that the problem which some of the AdSense users had been encountering, that of not being able to login to their accounts, was found a reason and a workaround until further action is to be taken, but more about this a bit further down the page.The error, "Welcome! You're signed in to Google Accou...

1 February 2008
06:21 GMT

"Get Money" from AdSense Minimum Limit Lowered

Google decided a few days ago to start paying its AdSense publishers, even if they're not all that productive. That's to say it is currently trying to attract some more people to join the program, that they were uncertain before if they were to make the minimum limit they needed to.The 50 dollar mark is obs...

30 January 2008
06:42 GMT

AdSense Giant Flees to Tumri

Gokul Rajaram, one of the most important people involved with AdSense and several other successful Google products, has quit his job with the Mountain View-based company in November 2007 and is now up and at'em, ready for a new challenge. To be honest, not really a challenge, he's not switching activity dom...

29 January 2008
03:49 GMT

A Big NO to Floating AdSense Ads

The rumor that "floated" around a while ago about the possibility that Google might introduce floating ads has seen its end today, as an official Google AdSense representative said that it would never happen. The discussion was interesting to follow, the two parts arguing whether the money-making scheme would prevail...

24 January 2008
07:11 GMT

Taxes from AdSense

There's no limit to what people would do in order to avoid paying taxes, from running away to a fiscal paradise like Panama (or at least according to Prison Break it is…) and down to claiming to be handicapped or anything of the sorts. But really, who can blame them? Is it the happiest day of your life when you ...

15 January 2008
03:21 GMT

How to Kill Your Stock, Courtesy of Google

Google can be your friend, or the reason of your downfall, if you rely only on the advertising from the Mountain View based company for your revenue stream. And this is not a warning against it, but, as Michael Arrington of TechCrunch.com said, a reason to keep them happy unless you might end up on the receiving end ...

14 January 2008
11:26 GMT

Google Changes AdSense Referral Units

The last week of January will bring some changes in the referral program going on, so you'd better take notes. It won't do you any good, though, as it has an awfully weird structure and, eh, I think I'll just let you read and perhaps you'll be able to understand it. If you do, please tell me what ...

9 January 2008
10:11 GMT

OneBox Results Move to AdWords Section

First came love… then came marriage, then came Google with a baby carriage. Oh, sorry, that wasn't the rhyme I was looking for, but it somehow suits the purpose as well. What I was going after was more in the lines of: first came Google and the idea of adding scroll function for its ads, then it came with the id...

27 December 2007
10:23 GMT

No Time for Reports? Google Saves Them for Later

It's everybody's dream to enjoy some peaceful and quiet time with their family for the Holidays and not have to deal with the stress of waiting for somebody else or facing deadlines. It's more of an urban myth, really, that of relaxing during this period, nobody ever gets to do it unless they have othe...

19 December 2007
10:34 GMT

Warning! Google AdSense Adverts Infected with Trojan Horse!

Security company BitDefender has found what seems to be the most dangerous attack these days: a Trojan horse which attempts to replace the adverts displayed by Google's AdSense with the commercials provided by another company. The Trojan, identified by BitDefender as Trojan.Qhost.WU, attempts to modify the Windo...

19 December 2007
07:49 GMT

No More Ads Opened in the Same Window from AdSense

Google China announced today that they might be toying with the idea of opening the AdSense clicked links in a new browser window or tab, the translation wasn't all that clear. Do not mistake this for pop-up windows, they are truly autonomous, these tabs will only open in the eventuality that you have clicked o...

13 December 2007
10:06 GMT

AdSense to be Equipped with Scrolling Function?

Papa Google, in its unlimited wisdom, thought that it might push more ads in the same window and if it can't reduce the font with which they are written, it could add a scrolling function to the whole deal and that would mean a "problem solved" stamp on it. To be honest, I'm not big on clicking the ads, per...

12 December 2007
08:48 GMT


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