Handsome Logic

This is going to be a relatively short post because I’m not in a position right now to start taking screenshots and I don’t think they’re neccessary.
Many moons ago, the web interface for Google AdWords had a Copy/Move utility under “Tools”. Using this tool, you could copy and move keywords and ads from one location […]

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Check out this screenshot of Google’s festive little Christmas tree ornaments displayed next to sponsored links on Google.com. I have tried to reproduce this with several different product queries, but “playstation” is the only one I’ve been able to trigger this with. The ornaments are 4 to an image, and seem to replace the thin […]

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American Blinds & Wallpaper Factory was involved in a lawsuit with Google over trademarked/branded keyword bidding on AdWords. Now, Jeff Alderman, who is the Director of Online Marketing and Business Development at American Blinds is asking the LinkedIn Answers community the following question: In your personal opinion is it ethical that some search engines sell branded keywords to competitors to advertising on?

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everal industry blogs yesterday reported that Google AdSense publishers have been getting emails regarding a change to what parts of ad units are clickable. I can’t help but wonder, though, when google is going to enforce a similar policy on their search network partners? Ask.com, Netscape, AOL, Earthlink and AT&T are all permitted to dictate their own versions of what constitutes a click.

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Came across a curious occurrence just now on Google… it seems that if you search for a term beginning with the letter “e”, Google proceeds to bold every instance of the letter in all display URLs for the Sponsored Links in the sidebar.

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