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iFive: Facebook Ads vs. Google, IE9's 2.3 Million Downloads, Apple's iPad GPS Trick, Microsoft's Ethics, Asus Chrome Netbook

Here's our summary of the early news from a world that kept innovating while you slept:READ»

Google Promises to Keep Counterfeiters Out of Its Ads

Conscious that its systems sometimes contain ads to illicit services, Google is tightening up its policies.READ»

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Google: Google's Economic Impact Was $54 Billion in 2009

For the first time ever, Google's revealed its "Economic Impact": $54 billion of economic activity for "American businesses, website publishers, and non-profits in 2009." Though Google may be huge now, it "began life as a small ...READ»

SEO Advertising Is the Direct Route of Paid SEO Marketing

Paid SEO Marketing is best known as pay-per-click (PPC) or pay-per-lead (PPL), and SEO Advertising often takes the form of Google's adwords.google, Bing's advertising.microsoft and Yahoo's advertising.yahoo. While Yahoo and Bing have ...READ»

Google Ahead of the Curve With Above the Fold AdSense Beta

Google announced yesterday that it's going to give advertisers more of a say in where they place their online ads. The new system, which debuted in Beta on Thursday, gives advertisers to place their ads "above the fold" on a Web ...READ»

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G-Railed: Why Did Google Bury the Web's Oldest Entertainment Publication? [UPDATE]

UPDATE: Roughly two hours after this post went live, Google re-enabled Studio Briefing's ad serving, without explanation. Irwin still wishes he knew, specifically, what he did wrong. But for now, he says, "we're back in ...READ»

Will Google's Rich Media Ads Drive Users Insane?

Google announced new search-side video and picture advertisements Tuesday, masquerading them as an improvement for users. It "makes sense to provide you with richer types of information in the ads," Google said in its official blog, ...READ»

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Google Ads Go Hyper-Local, and With Flat Fees They're Cheaper for Businesses

Google is trying to solicit more hyper-local advertising by straying from the very ad formula that made it rich. AdAge reported yesterday that local ads will not use "keyword auctioning," the Google Ads system that chooses which ...READ»

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Google Embeds Bigger Ads Into Smartphones

If you use Google AdSense to monetize your site, you'll now be able to run large, fancy ads when people visit your site from an iPhone, Pre, or another large-screen smartphone. According to TechCrunch, the new JavaScript ad modules ...READ»

Mobile AdSense Beta Expands as Google's Push to Own Mobile Marketing Gains Traction

Google's anticipated move into mobile advertising came one big step closer to fruition today, as the beta version of Mobile AdSense opened to a broader range of application developers after initial testing with a group of ten apps, ...READ»

Google Invades Gaming; Outer Space

Adding to its already-formidable AdSense product-line this week, Google [GOOG] announced AdSense for online Flash games. Comscore says that up to 25% of Web surfers worldwide play these games, so Google might be tapping a sizable ...READ»

The Smartest Guy In The Room

Well I'm NOT the smartest guy in the room. I do, however, know how to think like a maverick and get a job done! It might be dirty and look ugly, but I'll get the job done. Some might say that I have a criminal mind. Well, I ...READ»