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Only two days after their acquisition of DoubleClick, Google soft launched Ad Manager to address the issue that publishers could spare more quality time providing the best content, instead of managing their own ad space. Many publishers do a challenging effort to maintain and manage their inventory to make [...]

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Some of you already know the news about the Godfather of Adsense (adsense developer) left Google. CNN has this article published on Nov 15 and is really interesting to read it.
AdSense developer leaves Google
Gokul Rajaram, a high-ranking Google product [...]