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Google testing new interactive adsense ads!

It seems Google is testing new types of interactive adsense ads. I was just going through my travel directory, when the top adsense ad caught my attention.
Apart from the usual banner, it seemed to have navigation arrows which when clicked would display different packages from Viator.
Here are the screenshots of the Google Adsense Ad from [...]

Google Adsense reporting not working properly

If you are an Adsense Publisher, then you must have noticed that since yesterday, adsense stats are not getting updated properly. In fact for a few hours yesterday, they weren’t at all updated.
Rest assured this is a wide spread issue and Google Adsense Team is working to resolve this, in fact they have posted about [...]

Microsoft pulls the plug on Yahoo! acquisition

Microsoft has decided to pull the plug on Yahoo! acquisition, Microsoft’s CEO Steven Ballmer in an open letter to Yahoo!’s CEO Jerry Yang, has described the reasons why Microsoft believes acquiring Yahoo! is no longer in their best interest:
Dear Jerry:
After over three months, we have reached the conclusion of the process regarding a possible combination [...]

End of line for YPN?

Yahoo! Publisher Network aka YPN was supposed to be Yahoo!’s answer to Google Adsense and quite a few had high hopes for it.
With numerous delays and the program still being in Beta, reports have now surfaced that Yahoo! is planning to test Google Adsense for next couple of weeks on its search results!
“Yahoo will be [...]

Google Adsense, paid reviews?

Just came across this interesting post at Shoemoney blog, according to the author of the blog, Jeremy Schoemaker. Google might be about to launch paid review service through adsense.
Now Google has always contended that paid reviews are bad as long as there is no proper disclosure and links aren’t made nofollow. So it would be [...]