The Justice Department’s antitrust lawsuit, which a group of states joined, was the fifth by U.S. officials against the company since 2020. By David McCabe and Nico Grant David McCabe reports on tech ...

Google has admitted to quietly tweaking advertising auctions to meet revenue targets. The search engine “frequently” changes the auctions it uses to sell search ads, increasing the cost of ads and ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Google brings in tens of billions of dollars a year with search ads — and the Justice Department claims it faces ...

A current Google executive testified that the company has silently raised ad prices within its search results in order to hit revenue goals — and that the stealth changes resulted in hikes from 5% to ...

Google has misled advertisers by failing to meet promised standards when placing video ads on third-party websites, Adalytics has revealed. The research comes in light of similar findings that the ...

Google violated its promised standards when placing video ads on other websites about 80% of the time — a dismal rate that raises questions about the search giant’s transparency’s online ad business, ...

Google is replacing its top advertising exec. Vidhya Srinivasan will lead Google's ad organization, replacing Jerry Dischler. Srinivasan faces big challenges in running Google's sprawling ad business.