Your Search Ad: No Search, But You Paid Google

When is a search ad click not really a click? According to Richard Ball of Apogee Web Consulting, it's when someone clicks an ad on a parked domain to reach a site. So why is Google charging for these as ad clicks?

Google Slams Paid Links? Good or Bad?

Another under-the-radar-of-the-real-world blog firestorm erupted yesterday over high profile page rank drops. Google dropped visible PR of many blogs and mainstream news sites presumably as a penalty for selling links.