Not only is this against Google's guidelines, but it's also against the Federal Trade Commission's Guidelines; this link will take you to an article regarding a company which is helping with FTC disclosure issues.
Truth in advertising" and "full disclosure" are two looming concepts. Craigslist started 14 years ago and -- while the classified ads for apartments, dating, and items for sale are as popular as ever -- it seems the adult listings are fast becoming...
While reading The Boston Globe this morning, I saw the most tortured disclosure statement that I've ever stumbled across. Jon is actually involved with 5 different sessions at this conference, but this interview deals directly with the Auditing...
Of course, the training seminars are everywhere (Disclosure: SES offers SEM Training Seminars), one need only search for SEM or SEO training to find the listings. SEMPO offers three tiers of search learning: Fundamentals, Advanced SEO (natural...
Over the years, watchdog groups have tried to raise awareness of the need for advertising disclosure on search engines, and perhaps today, more people are aware of the distinction between organic and paid listings.
It felt like a lot of these advertisers' concerns were motivated by issues that could be solved by better disclosure and better customer service," Rohrs told Search Engine Watch. Rohrs, a self-styled "recovering attorney," has been participating in...
Loose Wires: Full disclosure: I made out with Larry Page in a Denny's men's room, Valleywag Irving and Chris also discussed the Related Searches on the upper right hand side of the search engine result page (SERP) in relation to Instant Answers...
Upstart search engine blurs the lines of advertising from the Associated Press, which covers issues raised over whether Snap is doing proper disclosure of paid listings. Snap.com has released a new user interface for its search results page.
Recommends Disclosure To Search Engines: The FTC decides it would be a good idea if search engines called ads, umm, ads. Engine Marketing: You Like It, You Really Like It -: I suggest the term search engine marketing" as an umbrella term to...
By the way, Google does NOT do this type of disclosure in France and Germany to my knowledge, despite what I've seen the company say, such as cofounder If this is what's happening -- if censorship in China from Google means a combination of...
Even back then, the idea of populating content-less domains with paid links had iffy issues, in particular whether better paid link disclosure was needed. That's the program where if you end up on someone's web site and do an actual search, the...
Disclosure is there, but it would be so much more open to make this directly in the actual search results -- or better, figure out a way to not charge for inclusion or shift away from a pay-per-click model for it.
Transcripts from Conference on Search Ad Disclosure Now Available - In June, Danny blogged about a panel he was on at: Trust or Consequence: How Failure to Disclose Ad Relationships Threatens to Burst the Search Bubble, a conference sponsored by...
He is to oversee issues on how Ask Jeeves toolbars and software deal with online privacy, disclosure, and downloadable software practices. Tips On Capturing The Search Tail Via Paid Listings - I wrote about the long search tail o
He is to oversee issues on how Ask Jeeves toolbars and software deal with online privacy, disclosure, and downloadable software practices. Tips On Capturing The Search Tail Via Paid Listings - I wrote about the long search tail of queries earlier.
MSN found to have made paid listings easier to spot, paid inclusion noted as no longer running, but dinged for removing a page about disclosure. Also see Search Engine Disclosure: Better, but Still Wanting for our coverage of the last survey by...
What's the disclosure of this to searchers? Got To Censor Search Listings? If you want to see ads targeted at those in particular countries, when at a particular search engine, you should be able to say so.
Disclosure of search sources within the actual search results is not done, sadly. The Search Engine Report, June 4, 2001 http://searchenginewatch.com/sereport/article.php/2163821 A review of meta search services by Search Engine Watch shows that...
And in this post, a bit more on disclosure that everyone ought to be providing. MotionBridge, which provides mobile search services to various European and other cell phone providers, has rolled out a new paid listings service for the mobile platform.
And in this post, a bit more on disclosure that everyone ought to be providing. Is Microsoft launching its own paid listings program in the near future. A specialized interface to acccess these listings is also available at: http://jobs.feedster.com.
