Google Provides Click-Fraud Stats For AdWords Advertisers

April 19th, 2006 Google added a new product to their referrals feature - Google AdWords. You will earn $20 when an advertiser you refer spends at least $100 within 90 days of signing up.

July 24th, 2006 As part of the settlement in the click-fraud case - Lane’s Gifts v. Google, Google had agreed to have an independent expert examine click-fraud detection methods, policies, practices, and procedures and make a determination of whether or not Google have implemented reasonable measures to protect their advertisers.

August 9th, 2006 The AdWords API Sandbox is an environment that replicates the API of the live site, for developing, testing and debugging applications that use the AdWords API. When a developer logs in, AdWords accounts are automatically created in the Sandbox, then the developer can create and run campaigns, adgroups, creatives, and other operations on those accounts without incurring any quota.

March 9th, 2006 Google Inc. said on Wednesday that it had agreed to pay up to $90 million to settle a class action lawsuit over advertising fraud by outside parties on its site, in a bid to put the controversy behind it. Read more in the Phil Law Blog..

December 11th, 2005 Google, Inc. has been sued by AIT, a "two-time" INC 500 Company, who has advertised with Google for years, as the representative plaintiff in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.

August 8th, 2008 One fine morning you may find an email like this in your mailbox: Subject: Your ads have been suspended. Dear Advertiser, -------------- We were unable to process your payment.

November 18th, 2005 Google is launching a new feature Friday that lets publishers of AdSense partner Web sites sign up advertisers on their own. Under the new Onsite Advertiser Sign-up, marketers can create site-targeted ads and submit cost-per-impression bids on the targeted site.

June 28th, 2006 Q: What is Google Payment System, or GBuy? A. Press has nick-named it GBuy; We have not announced a payment system name yet.

January 2nd, 2006 I was looking at some strange advertisements which appear on my stem cell research site and realized something always in front of us and yet startling on realization. First I noticed that some totally irrelevant sites appear before totally relevant sites (like selling cloning reagents, offering stem cell treatments etc.).

September 3rd, 2008 I don't get Google AdSense. Last year with great fanfare they announced making the text of the ad non-linkable while keeping the title and URL linkable.

July 21st, 2006 Google’s profits more than doubled in the second quarter, as the company continued to increase its share of the lucrative search advertising market. The company, which announced results yesterday, exceeded analysts’ expectations for both sales and profit.

May 30th, 2008 You have commonly heard terms like eCPM, CPM, CTR, Page Impressions, Page Views etc. What do they really mean.

June 29th, 2006 Google Launched Google Checkout today. It appears to be a surefire PayPal killer.

May 16th, 2008 Google killed the AdSense account of an anti-scientology site - Enturbulation. Google's explanation to Enturbulation was: "While going through our records recently, we found that your AdSense account has posed a significant risk to our AdWords advertisers," read Google's letter to Enturbulation, a kind of home base for the now famous Anonymous movement.

April 4th, 2008 Google Analytics finally provided the long asked for feature. While daily graphs are useful, summarized weekly and monthly graphs are much better in displaying trends.