In the wake of updates, you see a lot of what we call collateral damage – sites that weren’t trying to scam the system but got hit anyway. Things that never used to "hurt" a website are now bringing businesses to their knees.
While we don't know who was behind the false press release, or the reasons why, it appears to have been part of a typical pump and dump stock scam. A press release posted to PRWeb announced Google's acquisition of a wireless Internet provider for...
U.S.citizens who fell for a work from home scam that capitalized on the Google name are being refunded by the U.S. The scam, which operated under the names Google Money Tree, Google Pro, and Google Treasure Chest, had nothing to do with the...
Google released a short video in March, in which Engineering Director David Baker explains how they fight scam ads. Google has formally announced their participation in a new industry partnership called the Ads Integrity Alliance, backed by...
You'll get turned down a lot and you may even be accused of being a scam artist, and getting links this way is definitely seriously hard work, but you can get some fantastic links this way. Site owners are scrambling to clean up link messes after...
Based on the happenings over the past few weeks, and especially given that Google is sending warning messages about unnatural links to webmasters, it seems almost inevitable that the next great link building business scam will be promising to...
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.
Other legal issues around Automcomplete/Suggest have included a "scam" suggestion in Paris (for which Google was found guilty), and lawsuit in Belgium (for which Google was found not guilty). An anonymous plaintiff claims to have lost his job and...
We're also catching the vast majority of these scam ads before they ever appear on Google or on any of our partner networks. Google was found to have profited from illegal Olympic ticket reseller ads and mortgage scam ads within the past year, in...
SEO is neither a scam, nor anti-user. Now that’s not to say that there aren’t people out there that do scam in the name of SEO or that think that inserting the phrase “buy Viagra here” in every second sentence is a fantastic idea, but there are...
Similarly, a French appeals court ruled against Google in January 2010 in a separate defamation case in which the autosuggestions for the Centre Nationale Prive de Formation a Distancelinked the center to the word “scam.
David Whitaker used his Rhode Island electronics equipment company, MixITforME.com, to scam customers and a credit card processing company out of up to $20 million in 2005. After accepting millions of dollars in orders for iPods and failing to...
Naturally, she assumed this ad was trustworthy, being at the top of Google and all, and bought tickets from the scam site. Google is profiting from ads posted by illegal London 2012 Olympics ticket resellers, the BBC reported.
Also that year, Google was ordered to remove search suggestions of “scam” when users searched for Centre National Privé de Formation a Distance (CNFDI). Google must pay a $65,000 fine for suggesting the search term for “crook” when users typed in...
The scam was highlighted by Get Safe Online and Trend Micro last month, the latter estimating that mobile malware has grown an astonishing 800 per cent in just four months. Google was forced to pull a series of malicious Android apps masquerading...
Yahoo has claimed victory in a $610 million lawsuit against a group of individuals it accused of operating a massive spam and fraud campaign. A U.S.district court in New York issued a ruling in favor of the company, ordering the defendants to pay...
Microsoft proactively shut down the accounts of more than 400 advertisers that were connected to the 125 mortgage scam companies. The fake mortgage programs that brought Google under recent scrutiny don't seem to be run by Google-exclusive con...
After the prospective client (or, in this case, "dupe") makes a large up-front payment, the scam artists continue to make delays or otherwise put off the client until their money is long-since gone. The federal government has cracked down on...
If the $5 articles you bought don’t rank or even make sense, and you’ve had five or six cheap scam artists run away with your money, you have to wonder if the price was worth it. For a long time, the revenue share pay model was attractive; it added...
For example, what's the first clue a piece of email from a stranger is a scam? Lick it or not, spelling errors on commercial websites are a turnoff for many people. A recent BBC News article highlighted bad spelling as a potential cause of lost...
