We recently received an email from a reader who’d made an inquiry with Google AdWords support. Why, this reader had asked, is Ask.com allowed to buy AdWords and rank for certain surprising terms, when ...

A reader sent me a complaint about Ask.com using Google AdWords to send themselves traffic to their search engine, which just leads to a page of search results and additional ads. Now, the Ask.com ...

Many great articles have exposed the seedy underbelly of Local Services Ads spam and fake reviews. There’s one on Search Engine Roundtable regarding fake reviews and another on Search Engine Land ...

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Will Ask.com Google Arbitrage Ever Stop? Google has been ...

The rumors were heating up over the weekend that Google may be taking steps to curb or shut down the amount of arbitrage which is currently occuring with Google AdSense accounts. Basically Google ...

Several AdSense publishers have received notice that their sites, which are mainly of the AdSense arbitrage/made for AdSense (MFA) variety, are being kicked out of the AdSense program as of June 1.

It might sound perverse to say it but companies like Apple and Google have outgrown their ability, to some extent, to.... grow. Let me put that another way because clearly both have a good profit ...