SEO experts say a massive leak of 14,000 ranking features exposes the blueprint for how Google secretly curates the Internet.
Digital kiosks from Soofa take your phone's location data, then share it with local governments and advertisers.
The company announced changes to its algorithm to deamplify websites that "feel like they were created for search engines instead of people."
CMG Local Solutions claims its ads use “voice data” to target “the exact people you are looking for.”
There's good news if you're an ad-tier subscriber and you do a lot of long-haul streaming. There's also a bit of bad news.
For now, the subscription fee will cover all additional linked accounts, but Meta will charge for those extra profiles in the spring.
Yet another price hike is on the horizon shortly after Netflix promoted its cheaper ad-free offering and killed the Basic subscription.
Google Search officially doesn’t care whether humans are writing the content that fills the internet. Bring on the AI writers.
Experian consumers just wanted a free credit report, but instead received numerous emails without the option to unsubscribe.
Google says deleting old pages to bamboozle Search is "not a thing!" as CNET erases its history.
YouTube Premium’s price is going up by $2 a month to $13.99 as just the latest service to jack up costs while cutting off ad-blocker users.
A research firm found Google's video ad system defrauds customers 80% of the time. Some advertisers want their money back.
Content farms using chatbots like ChatGPT have exploded in prevalence and threatens the lifeblood of the internet.
Gannett alleges in the lawsuit, filed today in Manhattan, that Google is able to manipulate the real-time process of selling ads.
Marketers woke up Sunday to find the social media giant's ad system was eating up their entire budgets. Meta briefly stopped serving ads on part of its network.
The dramatically named AMERICA Act would prohibit big companies from owning multiple parts of the digital ad ecosystem.
Microsoft finally copped to incorporating ads into its buzzy AI Bing Chat this week, though the company's announcement offered little clarity.
Google said it has stopped 5.2 billion ads that violated its policies last year, but there’s a remaining question about how many malicious ads slipped through.
Antitrust law is complicated. So is ad tech. The Justice Department's lawsuit against Google is a thicket. Here's a handy map.
The Justice Department has sued Google, alleging it “corrupted legitimate competition in the ad tech industry" and seeking divestiture of its ad businesses.
