Tuesday, December 15th, 2009
MarkMonitor recently investigated to what extent popular product searches led to websites offering counterfeit and pirated goods via paid search ads. The research examined 20 of the top 1,000 product-related searches in 2008 and focused on paid search ads across the three major search engines – Google, Yahoo! and Bing. ...
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Tuesday, August 4th, 2009
It may not be widely-known but the big 3 search engines – Google, Yahoo! and Bing – have established procedures for removing natural search results on the basis of the DMCA. That’s good news for brand owners: if consumers can’t find infringing websites via the search engines, they’re less likely to ...
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