Google claims it is getting on top of the once-vast problem of fraudulent advertising pushing counterfeit goods, malicious software and other generally misleading products and services.
According
to its latest AdWords blog, in 2014 the firm disabled 524 million ‘bad’ advertisements from its services, banning 214,000 of the firms responsible for them, filtering out a quarter of a million sites hosting malware.
The crackdown had been particularly successful in stopping the corrosive problem of sites advertising counterfeit goods, with the number of banned sites dropping to 7,000 for the year, down from 14,000 in 2013 and 82,000 in 2012.
