Tag archive: AdSense

While we’ve known for quite some time that Google likes to take account of our activity across its products for personalization purposes, consumer concern has been heightened by its new singular privacy policy system. There are benefits to the upgrade, but some are worried about getting too much customization in with your search queries. If you generally want to keep your Google applications free of personalization, here are a few ways to… Read More

French search engine 1PlusV says it has launched a €295 million (US$418 million) lawsuit against Google, claiming the Internet giant leveraged its dominance of the Internet search market to stifle competition. The French company develops a number of niche search sites, including the ejustice.fr legal search engine, says Google's business practices have hindered the company in developing verticalized search engines in particular nice… Read More

Google’s been accused of becoming too big of a machine, taking over the Internet and wiping out privacy with it. But now it’s trying to make itself a little more human by funding a project to give computers some human emotion. A research team at Tel Aviv University is using Google money to create an algorithm that will teach computers how to experience “virtual regret.” According to the university, this type of program could give a computer… Read More

Google is already facing antitrust scrutiny in Europe over how sites get ranked in Google's search results; now, France's 1PlusV is adding more fuel to the fire, filing a new complaint with the European Commission that Google deliberately prevents companies using vertical search technology from using AdSense. 1PlusV is the search engine company behind Ejustice.fr, and is also a party to the existing antitrust investigation the EC… Read More

It's no secret that Facebook and Google don't like each other. In the last few months, the two Internet giants have poached one another's employees and warred over open email standards. On Wednesday, Facebook took its latest silent shot at Google. In a developer blog post, the social network said it has modified its rules and now requires that apps with in-app advertising can only use Facebook-approved companies, or companies… Read More

After only a year, Paul Buchheit is leaving Facebook to join Y Combinator, a company that nurses start-ups, the LA Times reports. He was not involved in the rumored email service Facebook may announce today. “Paul Buchheit was responsible for three of the best things Google has done: he wrote Gmail, built the original prototype of AdSense, and came up with the phrase “Don't be evil.” After leaving Google he started… Read More

Google’s AdSense has conquered Web pages, YouTube, mobile phone content, and now, will move onto the next frontier – video games. Although you won’t be spotting Cialis ads in billboards from GTA IV any time soon, Google expanded AdSense to include the type of online video games that a quarter of Internet users play on a weekly basis. The beta version of AdSense for Games, launched on Wednesday, will allow web… Read More