Online retailer Amazon.com has filed for a patent on a method for auctioning Web advertisements, a move that raises questions about the company's interest in the ad market. The e-commerce giant, which ...

Sketchy ads, like those for miracle weight loss pills and suspicious-looking software, sometimes appear on legitimate, well-regarded websites. It turns out that most websites don’t actually decide who ...

Several top online publishers have adopted newly sized advertisements that give marketers half of the page to tout their wares, in the industry's latest maneuver to make Web ads more pleasing to brand ...

If you had typed “Grantham University” into Yahoo’s search engine last week, what would have appeared at the top of the page, above the actual search results, was not a link to Grantham’s Web site but ...

More than 140 brands are advertising on low-quality content farm sites—and the problem is growing fast. People are using AI chatbots to fill junk websites with AI-generated text that attracts paying ...