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11|17|2008 9:47 pm EDT

Yahoo! CEO Jerry Yang Steps Down

by Adam Strong in Categories: PPC industry

With all that’s happened with Yahoo! recently, this may come as no surprise, but Jerry Yang has stepped down as CEO. Yang, who co-founded the company in 1995, has come under a great deal of criticism in recent months, most notably for turning down Microsoft’s $47.5 Billion dollar buy-out proposal (almost 3x what the company [...]

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10|25|2008 5:31 pm EDT

Google Clawbacks on Parking Programs ?

by Adam Strong in Categories: PPC industry

Domainers Reporting Bigger Squeeze on Google Feeds Domainers have been talking about the declines in PPC revenues for quite awhile now, but more recently we have been receiving consistent reports of recent declines in Google-fed PPC programs. At the same time we are hearing this report, we’ve heard rumblings of Google exercising clawbacks on revenue. Some chatter [...]

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10|21|2008 8:58 am EDT

Harvard Professor Says Google is Profiting From Typo-Squatting

by Chad Kettner in Categories: Legal Issues

Benjamin Edelman, an assistant professor at the Harvard Business School, has continued his quest against Google for profiting from “millions” of typo-squatting websites through Adsense advertisements. Edelman - who is serving as the co-counsel in the Vulcan Golf, et al., v. Google et al.; trademark-holder class-action litigation - has recently resurfaced in the news for an [...]

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09|02|2008 2:48 pm EDT

Google to Release “Chrome” Browser Early

by Chad Kettner in Categories: News

After accidentally sending out a premature press release, Google is prepared to enter the browser market earlier than anticipated with Google Chrome - a cutting edge web browser that has been created with today’s internet user in mind. More details after the jump.

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07|16|2008 2:30 am EDT

Google Sued Over Poor Traffic Conversions From Parked Domains

by Chad Kettner in Categories: Legal Issues

According to an article by Information Week, attorney Hal K. Levitte spent over $887.67 on his Google Adsense campaign to advertise his legal services and is now suing Google for placing $136.11 worth of those ads on parked domain pages. Out of the 202,528 impressions on parked domains, Levitte only received 668 clicks and zero [...]

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06|19|2008 11:53 am EDT

Sedo to include unpaid search results on Domain Landers

by Frank Michlick in Categories: PPC industry

Image via Wikipedia As per requirements of their main PPC provider Google, Sedo will now include unpaid search results on Domain Landers. From the Sedo announcement as posted on their site: One of these industry-wide changes is the implementation of organic search results on parked domains. Organic searches will appear at the end of a search results [...]

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06|12|2008 8:07 pm EDT

Yahoo! announces non-exclusive advertising agreement with Google

by Frank Michlick in Categories: Up to the Minute

As hinted earlier, Yahoo! announced today that they have reached a non-exclusive deal with Google around Search & Advertising. For more information read the Google Blog Post, Google Press Release and Yahoo! Press Release. The TechCrunch Summary: The deal is non-exclusive. Yahoo will be able to run Google ads alongside Yahoo ads or other ad providers. The [...]

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06|12|2008 2:09 pm EDT

Flash: Google and Yahoo Announcing Partnership

by Adam Strong in Categories: Editorial, ISPs, Up to the Minute

According to a TechCrunch post, Google and Yahoo will be announcing a partnership arrangement today (1:30 PST). Stay tuned for breaking news as it happens [more here]

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06|10|2008 10:26 pm EDT

Marchex Releases New Pay-Per-Click Advertising Platform

by Chad Kettner in Categories: PPC industry

Marchex (MCHX), a company already known for its leading local search/advertising network as well as their domain portfolio, has combined Industry Brains and Enhance Interactive to create Marchex Adhere, a new pay-per-click channel that will provide advertisers and agencies with exclusive access to more than 200 premium publishers. Marchex Adhere is primed to compete with Google [...]

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04|25|2008 4:22 pm EDT

Google Sued for Adwords Fraud

by Chad Kettner in Categories: Legal Issues

Kabateck Brown Kellner, LLP, a law firm in Los Angeles, California, has filed a lawsuit claiming that Google is deceiving its customers into paying for advertisements they don’t want. Google, the law firm contends, is cheating advertisers by charging for ads that are placed on third party websites without the Adwords user being informed.

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