Online advertising helps fund the services we all enjoy, keeps web content free, and helps businesses grow. However, bad ads and bad ad-funded content can ruin our experiences online and damage Google trust in the web as a whole.
2013 BAD CONTENT Publishers & Adsense
- Blacklisted more than 200,000 publisher pages from serving ads
- Removed more than 250,000 ad-funded publishers' accounts for various policy violations
- Disapproved more than 3,000,000 applications to join Adsense network
- Disabled bad ads and content coming from more than 150 countries and territories
- Stopped ad-serving on tens of thousands of sites and disabled more than 5,000 AdSense accounts for violations of Adsense copyright policy
- Disabled ads from more than 400,000 sites hiding malware
- Disabled ads for more than 10,000 sites promoting get-rich-quick schemes
