Google’s Chief Economist Hal Varian effectively dismantled all of SearchIgnite’s study on CPC inflation resulting from Google’s ad deal with Yahoo except for one: that prices could rise. That may be irrelevant, though, since, Varian notes, Google and Yahoo don’t actually set ad prices. Advertisers do.
Google Debunks Link Sabotage Theories
The search engine thinks the apocryphal talk about webmasters being able to wreck their competitors by creating bad links to them is just a bunch of talk.
Google Debunks AOL Chatter
After seeing several thousand news stories and blog posts about the $1 billion investment Google made in Time Warner’s AOL, Google has come out to address some of the more hotly-debated issues about the deal.