There are so many companies that are advertising on internet and earning a huge amount of capital. These companies are also offering different opportunities to developer and internet users to generate a huge amount of income from ads on their sites and services. By far and away the largest and most well-known is Google AdSense, which Google counts as its biggest revenue stream.
Until recently AdSense was allowed on Facebook, meaning any developer wanting to support a Facebook app with adverts could use Google. However, that is no longer the case, and AdSense has been effectively banned from the social network.
In order to be listed as advertising provider on Facebook, companies has to sign up for the Facebook Platform Terms of Advertising Providers and agree to Facebook’s policies. The deadline for getting on to that list was February 28, and as of today AdSense is not on the list.
The reason AdSense doesn’t feature on facebook app is not known, but it is most likely down to Google not agreeing to some of those platform terms. The result being it has just lost access to the largest social network on the web and more than 500 million users who visit the site regularly.
While Facebook-related revenue may only be a small portion of Google’s advertising revenue, the biggest losers in this seem to be Facebook developers. According to the forums, those advertisers now listed offer much lower returns on nowhere near enough content to fill the hole left by AdSense’s possibly forced departure.
A post from Facebook developer forum administrator Nick Gianos suggests that the reason a company isn’t allowed to advertise on Facebook is purely down to them not signing the agreement. In which case this is definitely a case of Google not agreeing with some terms. I doubt Google would forget about a deadline which cut off its entire ad revenue from Facebook.

Miscreants pushing Viagra and malware are making new progress infiltrating Google indexes, a feat that’s considered the Holy Grail among spammers. Google, which by some estimates carries out 60 per cent of the world’s searches, goes to great lengths to filter naughty sites from its results. The proliferation of rogue sites that have made an end run around the controls is giving rise to conspiracy theories that Google has been hacked.

“If a smart spammer has really found a way to game the Google search results with spoofed or cloaked sites, and Google still doesn’t have a fix, this could be a major issue with the underlying infrastructure of the entire Google operation,” according to this post on The Google Watchdog blog. “This is the first time that I’ve ever been worried that Google’s own index has been hacked.”
The site notes that specific search terms return large number of domain names ending in .cn. When clicked, they redirect the user to a different address that attempts to install malware. The rogue sites catch the attention of Google search bots by appropriating keywords and other content from legitimate sites. Amazingly enough, the rogue sites manage to secure a higher ranking than the legitimate ones, according to Google Watchdog.
A major hack of the algorithm used to rank and filter sites is intriguing, but it’s also unlikely. Despite Google’s noble efforts to sanitize results, rogue sites have been slipping through for years, and Google Watchdog provides no data to suggest there is anything new afoot.
According to Roger Thompson, a Exploit Prevention Labs researcher who specializes in finding innocuous search terms that return toxic results, the perpetrators are mainly succeeding through sheer brute force. Spammers register thousands of domain names and create thousands of landing pages for each one and then embed thousands of legitimate sounding keywords in each one. Then they lie in wait. Once a page is entered into the Google index, the miscreants enter code into the page that causes it to redirect to a site that installs malware.
“We’ve seen a real surge of this thing over the last couple of months,” Thompson says. “By putting out just the landing pages, they get up near the top of the search results and potentially get a lot more victims before they get shut down.”
Domain names ending in .cn seem to be especially popular these days because they sell for as little as 13 cents apiece, Thompson said.
The Google Watchdog didn’t provide examples of search strings that return the rogue sites. But Thompson has been supplying them for months in a series of blog posts titled Dangerous Searches. The phrase “toddler inflatable mattress” returns a fair number rogue sites. One of them at this adress (we inserted a ? to prevent people from accidentally clicking on it) attempts to force install software on a user’s machine, according to Thompson. Other searches that have worked in the past include “pokemon ruby gamesharks” and “blue book.”
To Google’s credit, site engineers are generally quick to filter spam out of search results. We asked representatives for comment, but had not received a response at time of writing. ÂŽ

Miscreants pushing Viagra and malware are making new progress infiltrating Google indexes, a feat that’s considered the Holy Grail among spammers. Google, which by some estimates carries out 60 per cent of the world’s searches, goes to great lengths to filter naughty sites from its results. The proliferation of rogue sites that have made an end run around the controls is giving rise to conspiracy theories that Google has been hacked.

“If a smart spammer has really found a way to game the Google search results with spoofed or cloaked sites, and Google still doesn’t have a fix, this could be a major issue with the underlying infrastructure of the entire Google operation,” according to this post on The Google Watchdog blog. “This is the first time that I’ve ever been worried that Google’s own index has been hacked.”
The site notes that specific search terms return large number of domain names ending in .cn. When clicked, they redirect the user to a different address that attempts to install malware. The rogue sites catch the attention of Google search bots by appropriating keywords and other content from legitimate sites. Amazingly enough, the rogue sites manage to secure a higher ranking than the legitimate ones, according to Google Watchdog.
A major hack of the algorithm used to rank and filter sites is intriguing, but it’s also unlikely. Despite Google’s noble efforts to sanitize results, rogue sites have been slipping through for years, and Google Watchdog provides no data to suggest there is anything new afoot.
According to Roger Thompson, a Exploit Prevention Labs researcher who specializes in finding innocuous search terms that return toxic results, the perpetrators are mainly succeeding through sheer brute force. Spammers register thousands of domain names and create thousands of landing pages for each one and then embed thousands of legitimate sounding keywords in each one. Then they lie in wait. Once a page is entered into the Google index, the miscreants enter code into the page that causes it to redirect to a site that installs malware.
“We’ve seen a real surge of this thing over the last couple of months,” Thompson says. “By putting out just the landing pages, they get up near the top of the search results and potentially get a lot more victims before they get shut down.”
Domain names ending in .cn seem to be especially popular these days because they sell for as little as 13 cents apiece, Thompson said.
The Google Watchdog didn’t provide examples of search strings that return the rogue sites. But Thompson has been supplying them for months in a series of blog posts titled Dangerous Searches. The phrase “toddler inflatable mattress” returns a fair number rogue sites. One of them at this address (we inserted a ? to prevent people from accidentally clicking on it) attempts to force install software on a user’s machine, according to Thompson. Other searches that have worked in the past include “pokemon ruby gamesharks” and “blue book.”
To Google’s credit, site engineers are generally quick to filter spam out of search results. We asked representatives for comment, but had not received a response at time of writing. ÂŽ