Google (GOOG) announced this week it will be "rolling out a series of enhancements to AdSense's contextual targeting capabilities, which will more accurately match relevant ads to Web pages."

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Google is wading into behavioral ad targeting in a big way today. It will start placing cookies on consumer's browsers to collect information about their interests whenever they visit sites that show AdSense contextual ads.

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Getting through to companies when you have an issue

This brief article is inspired by the Why I sued Google AdWords and won" article seeded by krich. I was going to post to the seed, but found that my answer grew too long! Here goes...

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Like most Americans, I use Google's search engine several times a day without so much as a second thought. It was only in 2007 that my company's relationship with Google, Inc.

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"Google can ascertain what traffic is providing the advertisers the desired results from the traffic that just clicks an ad out of curiosity, lingers on the advertiser's site for 2 seconds and then moves on.

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How about that? A polite letter, with a clear goal: Bury the "Cash 4 Gold" name in my article so that it doesn't scare off every would-be gold seller with an internet connection. I was kind of thrilled.

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Google Adsense vs Bidvertiser

I was looking for an alternate to my Google adsense publishing account. Google has strict rules which are sometime counter productive to your needs.

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It's always fun to hear what Google employees call various projects when they think no one is listening. In 2007 they called the upstart Hulu joint venture Clown Co.

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Dan Rua has been researching marketplace margins for some time, including GOOG. While there may not have been a noteworthy AdSense partner margin change this quarter, the longer-term trend is eye-opening.

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Google is profiting from millions of typo-squatting websites that earn advertising from Google's Adsense advertising program, Harvard University professor Ben Edelman says.

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Google has been sued for fraud, business code violations and unfair enhancement. Claims came up from company's supposed sale of 'low quality ads'. The lawsuit was filed by lawyers from Schubert Jonckheer Kolbe & Kralowec in a San Jose, Californian, U.S. District Court.

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In September, Seth MacFarlane, creator of "Family Guy" on television, will unveil a carefully guarded new project called "Seth MacFarlane's Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy." Unlike "Family Guy," which is broadcast on Fox, this animation series will appear exclusively on …

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Freedom:- Scientology cultists have a lot in common with the corporate entertainment cartels. Both groups detest the Net because it allows people around the world to communicate with each other freely and openly in a way that's never before been possible.

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Google has murdered the AdSense account run by one of the web's most influential anti-Scientology sites.

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Google's first-quarter earnings report, scheduled for Thursday afternoon, just got a lot more interesting. Late Tuesday night, those Internet traffic trackers at ComScore put out some lousy news: growth in paid-search clicks in the United States is slowing down.

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Whats sure to be the wildest hostile takeover ever! Yahoo finally takes up Google's offer to form strategic partnership to fend off hostile takeover by Microsoft. Google's CEO Eric E.

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For years now I have been expecting a viable AdSense competitor, from Microsoft, Yahoo, or a then yet unknown startup. By viable competitor, I mean publishers (like myself) could easily switch to the competitor and expect to make at least as much money on average.

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Google Adsense pressures non-Gmail subscribers

Google is requiring its 10 million AdSense users to open a new "Google account" or change their email address if they're not using Gmail.

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This is the only automated article directory script that delivers and allows you to build a highly profitable directory with other peoples articles

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The Good Guy Behind "Don't Be Evil" and Google Mail

This was a big week for Paul Buchheit. His new company, FriendFeed, no longer in private beta, launched Tuesday. In addition, they announced $5 million in venture funding.

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Google has launched AdSense for Video, enabling Web sites another way to push ads in our faces. I'm not complaining... well, actually I am. The ads don't offer much, except more distraction to already ad-filled Web sites.

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Google has opened an advertising sales office in Washington DC after adapting its online targeting techniques for niche demographics to aid political campaigning in the 2008 presidential race.

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The email system was and continues to be criticized since it uses Google's AdSense to include contextual advertisement together with email messages, which means that it's a 'bot', a type of software, which 'reads' email contents, violating user privacy. Despite the f …

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IncrediMail Ltd (MAIL.O: Quote, Profile, Research) said it received a notice from Google Inc (GOOG.O: Quote, Profile, Research) stating that the Web search company decided to stop an advertising service partnership between the firms, sending its shares down more than 45 percent t …

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Spammer Profile: nSebastian

sebnews.newsvine.com At first glance, nSebastian's seeds don't look that odd. But a further look and you notice he has a think for historical seeds, which really isn't on-topic for Newsvine, and the sources all match the titles.

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