Fused Nation

Matt just tweeted about Google’s fresh, new web spam report form – apparently its first update in 10 years!  Yes people, it’s a big news day!

I just wrote a blog post about Ofcom’s decision to censure Channel 4 and Frankie Boyle after Frankie’s made a few comments about Katie Price in his stand-up comedy show.  For those who don’t know, Katie Price is a glamour model / attention whore who is never out of the UK papers.  During her modelling [...]

Not sure if this old news or not but interesting all the same if you haven’t read about it yet.   The NYTimes reported last month that 3 UK Internet providers (BT, Carphone Warehouse and Virginmedia) are teaming up to offer an advertising alternative to that offered by the big 3 search engines. The 3 companies have allowed [...]

A fairly standard thread over at WMW (fairly dry topic; insane amount of responses very few of which actually say anything) about Google recently informing loads of Adsense publishers that their accounts are being disabled because “their business model is not a good fit for Adsense”. Shocker!

Some snippets popping up in “blog” related search queries on Google now plus selling Blogger.  Example:

I think Google really screwed the pooch with their Adsense network.  Half the web has it plastered over their crappy little sites, not entirely unlike banner advertising.  At least banner ads had variety (to an extent) from site to site and there wasn’t such a huge motivation to churn out carbon copy websites to stick [...]

V7N are reporting (from Jensense source) that Adsense are now displaying photos in place of text adverts.  I noticed this yesterday on my career advice site – a generic picture of some random “business” type guy was placed in the top ad spot (rest of the ads were text – job / cv related). The [...]