Internet giant Google on Friday said it took down 1.7 billion ads in 2016 that violated its advertising policies, more than double the number of "bad ads" it banned in 2015. Google disabled more than 68 million bad ads for healthcare violations and 17 million bad ads for illegal gambling violations in 2016. But bad ads can ruin the online experience for everyone," Google Director of Product Management Sustainable Ads Scott Spencer said. In 2016, Google detected and disabled a total of 112 million ads for 'trick to click', 6X more than in 2015," the report said. In 2016, Google took action on 47,000 sites for promoting content and products related to weight-loss scams.

Source: dna January 27, 2017 15:35 UTC