My gut reaction would be to something controversial that would get people worked up and vocal about illegal immigration and healthcare. Designed to appeal to the ego of an influencer, it's a concept that has some negative connotations, due to the...
Google is allowing illegal prescription drug activity online and profiting from it, according to a report by USA Today. Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood claimed Google was up to its old tricks by allowing websites to be found that sell illegal...
Schmidt added that nothing Google does is illegal and it would always operate above board. Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt has defended the firm’s UK tax payments, claiming it operates within the law and is responsible for “billions” of...
In other words, it was illegal to use the API to try to manage Bing Ads alongside AdWords. It was one of those moments in time I bet many Microsoft executives would like to revisit. The day they decided that Bing Ads (formerly known as Microsoft...
Google's privacy policies are under investigation by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) to see if they are illegal under UK law. The move comes after French data protection regulatory CNIL confirmed that Google had made no attempt to meets...
For example, in the image to the left you can see links to a free (illegal) stream for the new “Die Hard” movie. It’s not easy…” So say the multitude of recent Facebook posts that have inundated the feed of pretty much everyone on Facebook.
It's important for law enforcement agencies to pursue illegal activity and keep the public safe. Google has followed up last week's transparency report update – which revealed that government requests have risen by 70 percent over the last two...
For example, a non-breaking space (or ) is an illegal character in a URL, so if you tried entering a URL like http://somedomain.com/here-comes-a space, this would be encoded as either http://somedomain.com/Here-Comes-a%20space or http...
Is this illegal or immoral, white or black? Not really – it’s all about Google today because Google is the most used search engine. Google, like any other software, evolves and corrects its own bugs and conceptual failures.
Yet three months into the much-vaunted algorithm change, many of these illegal sites are still dominating search results for music downloads," it said in a statement. This means Google must stop dragging its feet and giving profile to illegal sites...
Where you stand is all a matter of your ethics, but beware, some of it is highly illegal and could land you in jail if discovered. Why do so many use our terms so incorrectly? And does Google really hate SEOs?
The requests are made to Google under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DCMA), which removes liability from the firm if it provides inadvertent access to sites offering illegal material, if they comply with requests to remove content flagged...
In fact, it’s so good; it’s almost “illegal” to use “superlatives” in Google AdWords. When it comes to PPC ad copy, the HIPPO epidemic generally causes the HIPPO to say “we’re so special because we’ve been in business for 20 years”, or “we provide...
We have argued for some time that sites with a lot of illegal content should feature lower in search rankings, based on the notifications we send to Google," he said. Google has announced an update to its search ranking algorithm that will demote...
Should they have to run ads for illegal products, child porn, malware, phishing, and other ads that are currently outlawed (yes, a few bad ads get through – even some allegedly approved by CEO Larry Page).
Oh, and all those other search engines - Bing, Blekko, DuckDuckGo - they’re a bunch of hackers doing illegal things. What is Google looking for in a high quality website, worthy of top rankings? Well according to Matt Cutts, head of Google’s web...
In order to combat these types of scam/illegal ads and human trafficking ads, Google uses a combination of automated systems and human input to review the billions of ads submitted to Google each year.
Non-consensual or illegal sex acts Additionally, Google bans ads for illegal products and services, which likely covers human trafficking. So what is Google doing to spot ads that promote illegal actions and what actions are in place to deal with...
While these tactics aren't illegal, they can have a profound impact on the success or failure of your business. The most prudent linking strategist will develop several different types of strategies – some purely to appeal to the search engines...
Google was found to have profited from illegal Olympic ticket reseller ads and mortgage scam ads within the past year, in addition to being fined $500 million by U.S. Google claims it has cut in half the number of so-called "bad ads" being...
