Publishers Want Refund For Google AdSense Outage

This Friday, dozens of reports came from the Google AdSense Help forum that Google AdSense ads were simply not loading. The reports continued throughout the day and publishers were not making money, at all. The reports were sporadic, not all publishers saw their ads as being offline, only some. Google confirmed the issue at Marketing Land and in the Google AdSense Help forums. Chris from Google ...

Google cut off Megaupload's ad money voluntarily back in 2007

The federal government's 72-page indictment of file hosting site Megaupload is stuffed with odd bits of information. Take page 34, for instance, which features a single paragraph about Google's AdSense program. It reads: On or about May 17, 2007, a representative from Google AdSense, an Internet advertising company, send an e-mail to [Megaupload founder Kim] DOTCOM entitled "Google AdSense ...

Kindle Fire Android Don't Show Google AdSense Ads

Did you know that your Google AdSense ads won't show up for Kindle Fire users? Don't you find that interesting? The Kindle Fire runs Google's Android OS but when you try to view AdSense ads with them, you won't get them. A Google AdSense Help thread has reports from AdSense publishers and those advertising using AdSense that the ads do not render on the Kindle Fire. I snapped a picture using my ...

Who Buys All Those Google Ads? An Infographic Breakdown

Google cleared $37.9 billion in 2011 revenue, which equates to more than $3 billion a month, mostly from those little text ads next to your search results that neither you or anybody you know will admit to ever clicking on. Insurance and finance buys for Google Adsense words accounted for $4.2 billion of that total [...]

Google AdSense Publishers Excited For 2012

A WebmasterWorld thread has several Google AdSense publishers already excited to kick off the new year in anticipation for strong earnings in 2012. Publishers are expecting 2012 to be their best year in terms of earnings with the Google AdSense product. One publisher said: Must admit I've had a very fine AdSense year in 2011, and I am working on building my site so that next year is even better ...

Former Facebook Employee Wants To Create A Network As Big As Google AdSense, But For Apps

It's a platform that hooks up developers to content kings.

Google's $500M Drug Sales Settlement Brought on by Con Artist

The man reportedly posed as an agent for online pharmacies during exchanges with Google sales executives, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Does the great Google unification create more problems than it solves?

Yesterday Google announced it would be “simplifying” its privacy policy so that all separate Google product accounts would be tied together for a single signup system. As expected, privacy advocates are outraged by the change and Google’s failure to allow users to opt-out. To Google’s credit, there are some issues here that needed to be fixed–but in the process, it could sacrificing user trust ...

Google Privacy Changes: What Do They Mean To You?

Google announced this week that it is rolling out a new, main privacy policy that covers the majority of its products. The company is consolidating over 60 privacy notices into the main privacy policy. It’s keeping a few separate for …

What Google's privacy changes will mean for you

Announced on the Official Google Blog earlier today, Google will be simplifying how the privacy policy is structured across more than 60 different Google products on March 1, 2012. Users will definitely benefit from the simplicity of a single document regarding privacy instead of sixty policies, but may not like the company direction stated within the blog post. As outlined in the revised ...