Google has agreed to a $500 million settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice for illegally allowing online Canadian pharmacies to advertise drugs to U.S. consumers.
At Wednesday's announcement of Google's +1, the company was coy about comparing its experimental product to the longstanding Facebook Like button. But in the two companies' ongoing battle for ad dollars, +1 is a clear shot across Facebook's bow.
YouTube has officially launched its new TrueView ad format, allowing site visitors to avoid watching ads they're not interested in.
Just in case you haven't heard it enough: It's tough to get a job these days. So tough, in fact, that it's not unlikely for a job seeker to spend six months or longer looking for a job before getting one.
Twitter this week began testing a new type of advertising: "Promoted Trends." Under the new system, brands can pay to appear below the "Trending Topics," the most talked-about terms on Twitter at any given moment.
The European Court of Justice in Luxembourg ruled this morning on whether Google violated trademarks by selling brand-name keywords to competitors -- for example, allowing makers of Louis Vuitton knockoff or competitor handbags to buy the keyword "Louis Vuitton." The practice had been challenged by several trademark owners, led by Vuitton's parent company, luxury conglomerate LVMH. And while both sides are claiming victory, it's clear that the big losers are advertisers -- many of whom are small businesses, hoping to be noticed -- who now face potential legal peril when they go shopping for keywords.
When Rep. Joe Wilson yelled "You lie!" at President Obama, the South Carolina Republican's political team quickly launched an online strategy to capitalize on the incident.
A Congressman's outburst draws critics and support, as CNN's Fredricka Whitfield explains.
As a small business in a small town, we rely heavily on phone-book advertising for our law firm. We have recently expanded to create a Web site. We have tried to keep it informative to draw in potential clients. We currently use Google AdWords and are listed as a member of the AARP Legal Services Network. Can you make any suggestions as to how we can improve our Web site to attract people who are using the Internet to search for an appropriate attorney in this area?
The name of my Web site is MyDayRegistry.com. I have been working on this site for a little over a year now in my spare time, and while it started as a hobby it has grown into a full-blown addiction.
FSB: Google wants youupdated: Wed May 06 2009 05:50:00
Last September, Polly Liu started having serious doubts about her wedding favors company, Beau-coup.com. During the previous six years, Liu, 36, had grown the online-only retailer into a 30-employee, $10-million-a-year operation. But with the economy entering a miserable patch, she wasn't sure it made sense to stay in a business that catered expensive happy occasions.
Amid the global meltdown, Google posts robusts earnings and a hugely optimistic forecast for the long term
What a dire time to launch a new ad platform! But that's just what MySpace is doing today
This is only day 13 on the job for Sheryl Sandberg, so forgive her if she doesn't have everything figured out just yet. She pulls her legs up beneath her into a white Eames chair.
Dear FSB: I just started a home-base travel agency and I was wondering: how can I get people to my site?
When any company has been as successful as Google it's tempting to believe it has nowhere to go but down. And many point to potential weak spots: growing internal bureaucracy, insurgent search competitors, and the returning strength of Yahoo. Meanwhile, its much-touted recent initiatives - the Open Handset Alliance for cellphones, OpenSocial for software on social networks, and plans to spend billions buying wireless spectrum space - could easily fizzle.
Business 2.0: Ask Business 2.0updated: Fri Oct 19 2007 12:13:00
Q. My website, which aggregates deals on travel and electronics, isn't getting much traffic from Google AdWords. How do I market my site and generate traffic on a small budget? - Kamlesh Patel, Director, Grab2travel.com
Social networking Web site Facebook is working on an advertising system to allow marketers to target users with ads based on the information that people reveal about themselves on the site, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.
Finding customers on the Web nowadays sounds so easy: Sign up for Google AdWords, tap out a punchy two-line pitch, and let the power of search take over. Millions of people spot your ad and -- poof -- the money starts pouring in.
Google Inc. said it is expanding its Print Ads program to allow online advertisers nationwide to place print advertisements in 225 newspapers, serving half of U.S. newspaper readers.
After a spat between two of the world's largest Internet companies, online auctioneer eBay Inc. resumed running advertising through Google Inc. on Friday
The squeaky wheel gets the grease or just good customer service?
The squeaky wheel gets the grease, or just good customer service?
A handful of e-tailers who've found that their business through Google isn't as profitable as it once was are now rushing to park their ad money elsewhere.
FSB: How to play bigupdated: Mon Oct 23 2006 09:13:00
Using new tools, even the tiniest companies can compete with the big boys.
Business 2.0: The Wizard of Adsupdated: Sat Oct 01 2005 00:01:00
You've heard of Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Google's famous co-founders. But there's another figure insiders know to be Google's "business founder": Omid Kordestani, the company's 12th employee and...
Being a member of the tech media has its advantages sometimes. We get a first look at new gadgets and are able to spend time talking with inventors and businesspeople who are helping to shape the world of tomorrow.
CNNMoney: Search goes localupdated: Wed Mar 24 2004 10:41:00
A sage once noted that "all politics is local." More and more Internet search companies are taking that wisdom to heart and offering their users the ability to search not only across the Web, but in just a local area as well.
American Meadows is a leading wildflower-seed supplier on the Web. But you'd never know that from TV commercials. Instead, type "forget-me-not" into Yahoo and there atop the search page is a sponso...
Only one of last year's top 10 fastest-growing companies stayed on the list. Guess who.
Sorry, they told me, Google CEO Eric Schmidt was not talking to the press. Google's PR people want to play it cool, just the way the dotcoms didn't. But, lucky me, there was Schmidt in the doorway ...
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