Google Fights Scams

Google reveals some data about their fight against scam ads Found this article on the Google blog that talks about their fight against spam-ads on Google and AdSense pages. Google has built technology to help identify, review and remove advertisers who attempt to trick customers with misleading claims, promote malware or to spam. Here is [...]

Google AdSense Creator Gil Elbaz Sells Data to Businesses and Governments

His new company, Factual, sells location data and will be introducing a mobile-targeted product. Gil Elbaz, the founder of Factual, a data aggregation company, says that Google can't be considered an "honest" data source because it sells its services to consumers. Elbaz founded and later sold a company named Applied Semantics which was acquired by [...]