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Google Ad Trash Revamped On a Chinese Rickshaw - Tech Art

So this is not an official Google ad, but the rickshaw (sunlunche) guy recycled a Google AdSense trash maybe to bring some technological boost to the old rickshaw or maybe he just liked the color or the message.  (via Blogoscoped via Go Too Far East). Note, Google is not the number 1 search engine in […]

Google Sells Performics to a Third Party to Keep Objectivity

Ever since Google bought up Doubleclick, (SEM) marketers were wondering what Performics a major search marketing agency managing big budget search campaigns on Google is doing within Google? Now it turns out, Google sells one part of Performics, the search marketing division (the other division, Performics affiliate marketing remains within the HQ).
Dan Sullivan went as […]

Chinese Online Video Sites Shut Down or Punished

You won’t be surprised: “The announcement came as Chinese Web surfers were blocked from seeing foreign sites with video about protests in Tibet. The new order did not mention the anti-government demonstrations or China’s resulting crackdown. … In the recent sweep, regulators ordered 25 Web sites to shut down and will punish 32 others following […]

Google Video Ads: From Content Sites to Search Results, TV And More

Very much in the air, long awaited, Google has finally started to live experiment with Google Video ads embedded in search results in the not so new blended or universal search lists. Mind you, nobody has seen them, not even the author of the New York Times article, or the really search savvy guys on […]