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The Cambridge Analytica affair may be the biggest threat to Facebook to date; far more so than Russian meddling in the last US Presidential Election (the Cambridge Analytica gang were much cleverer in the way they harvested data from, virtually, ...

Google has published its 2017 annual report detailing the type and number of ‘bad ads’ it has removed from its from platform – the fifth year it has done so. In 2017 Google took down more than 3.2 billion ads, ...

We can all relate to annoying pop-ups or autoplay video ads that block the page when you scroll, so the rise of ad blockers is no surprise. Despite yearly reports on brands increasing their ad spend, 22 per cent of ...

Google is launching two new “tools” aimed at boosting website mobile performance at the Mobile World Congress: a Speed Scorecard and an Impact Calculator which purports to show how much extra revenue they could gain if they speed up a ...

Where would we all be without Google? We’d be up a well-known creek without a paddle, of course, but is it really a force for good? Google Search is, according to this new piece of cheerleading from 72andSunny. Trouble is, ...

Has the Guardian finally found a viable future as a crowd-funded news organisation? Readers of Guardian online will have noticed bits in yellow at the bottom of each story saying “while you’re here,” inviting you to send money to support ...

Google’s promoting the joys of search – yes, really – with this film from BBH and its in-house Black Sheep Studios featuring “influencer” stuntman Colin Furze. Influencers are all the rage these days, Samsung’s Marc Mathieu observing recently that he’s ...

The UK’s IPA agency trade body has formally called on Google-owned YouTube and Facebook to work with the IPA and ISBA (the advertiser equivalent) to bring the safety, measurement and viewabillity of their online video up to acceptable industry standards. ...

By Emily Reiffer Google processes billions of search queries on a daily basis. Here is only a handful of what people around the world search for: Product reviews Local businesses News updates Entertainment Tutorials Ranking for keywords that are relevant ...