Does Google AdSense Automatically Show Your Best Color Ad?
A WebmasterWorld thread has Google AdSense publishers wondering if Google automatically shows the best performing ad color. As you know, you can allow Google to rotate the AdSense color templates for you. But is that purely random or is Google showing your best color? Most publishers suspect Google automatically shows the best performing colors. Netmeg said: I always just assumed they rotated …
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Facebook Acquires Chai Labs, Gains ‘Godfather of Google Adsense’
Facebook has snapped up startup Chai Labs for around $ 10 million, reports Kara Swisher over at All Things Digital. The move seems geared more toward acquiring talent than technology, as it’s not quite clear what exactly the stealth startup—founded in 2007 by former Google “godfather of Adsense” Gokul Rajaram—actually does.
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Newsweek: Meet the creators of the blogosphere
They invented the software that breathed life into the blogosphere and sold it all to Google within five years. The people behind Blogger and Blogspot.com look back at how they accidentally created a publishing tool that changed the Internet. Google – Blogger – search – Search Engines – Blogspot.com
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Website operators use new defenses to fight R-J copyright suits
New defenses are being asserted by websites and bloggers facing copyright infringement lawsuits for online postings of material from the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
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