AdWords UK Stops Accepting Switch Cards

In a rather inexplicable move, Google UK has sent out an email to AdWords advertisers that they will stop accepting payments via Switch cards. The email sent out yesterday informs advertisers that if they wish to continue running ads on Google AdWords, they will need to use Visa, MasterCard or American Express credit cards or switch [...]

Google Annihilates Microsoft, Yahoo! In Mobile

If Global Stats from StatCounter are to be believed, Microsoft and Yahoo! might as well pack their bags and say goodbye to mobile search, because Google reportedly owns 97% of the market. Data pulled from the 4 billion page views collected across more than 3 million websites that use the StatCounter analytics solution showed that Google [...]

Google Webmaster Central Promoting AdWords In France

French website owners who don’t currently advertise on Google AdWords might notice a message waiting for them when logged into Google Webmaster Tools. The message prompts webmasters to give Google AdWords a try, as an alternative means for sending traffic to their website and even offers 100 € free AdWords credit to get them started. Like [...]

YouTube Testing Pre-Roll Ads

YouTube has now decided to launch their pre-roll ad service outside the U.S.A. As a first step towards achieving that goal, they have started trialling pre-roll ads on YouTube in the U.K. These pre-roll ads are run around TV shows and clips on their site. To begin with they have tied up with their existing partners Channel [...]

How Soon Will Mobile Search Catch Up With PC?

When search services were first started on mobile phones, they were very basic, almost rudimentary in nature. However things have changed with emerging technology, and now search patterns on the latest mobile handsets are getting closer to those on PC’s. In fact a few months ago Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt had even said that “mobile Search [...]