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Last morning, Matt Cutts, head of Google’s Web Spam Team Tweeted, "Today we're taking action against a French link network because he violates our quality guidelines (Buzzea)."

Buzzea has posted a message on their site and in that message they are acknowledging the Google penalty and telling everyone they are closing up. The translated version reads:

This is the end of risky venture for our team but also the end of our contribution with thousands of publisher sites, agencies and advertisers who showed interest and given us their trust.

We were allowing bloggers to rewarding their work and influence in all areas because by working for 4 years with them.

French tool took offence for being called a "link network" saying, they "disfavour this avouchment because we never stopped wanting to keep the ethical side of sponsored articles that focused on natural and quality links."

It is being said, the French tool is now being disclosed by Google and rankings for those who used this to build unnatural links may drop, with subsequent link notifications.

Matt Cutts said the next country on their list is Germany.

Google Rejected 3 Million Publishers & Removed 350 Million Ads

Google announced on Friday their efforts to keep their ad network safe, trustworthy and in-line. They shared some pretty crazy stats on what that mean for their ad network.

->Removed 350 million bad ads in 2013

->Disabled 270,000 advertisers in 2013

->Blacklisted more than 200,000 total publisher pages

->Disabled 250,000 publisher accounts

->Disapproved 3,000,000 attempts to join AdSense

Google publish this infographic to show their efforts in a friendly way.

Google: Freezing Image Search With Anime Porn

P Koester posted on Google+ that when you search for the term [freezing] in Google Image Search you are not shown snow or ice or cold people - instead you are shown Asian cartoon, anime porn.
Not just a few images but the huge majority of the images that come up are anime porn.

One person explained this why:
Freezing, and Freezing shaking are somewhat alright anime. The first series has way more nakedness. There is no good reason either because their clothing is manifest by their thoughts like some kind of digital camouflage. So it is kind of awkward. I liked it, but I would not recommend it to most.

Indeed, it is awkward. Not sure how this happened but I hope Google will fix it soon.

Google: Location History Summary Dashboard Kill By Google

Google has dropped endorse for the location history dashboard. Firsly, Alex Chitu covered this explaining that the location history dashboard, that provides summaries of where you've been, has been discontinued.

Google's community manager, Abby, explains that the core location mapping data is still there but the summaries are gone. She wrote, thanks for your feedback on the Location History dashboard and Location History. You can continue to manage and view your Location History information by going to https://maps.google.com/locationhistory/, but we have removed the Location History dashboard (the part of the Location History website that provided a summary of your locations, including total miles traveled and trip information).

We are continuing to explore more relevant and useful ways for you to engage with and view location history. We are not deleting any raw Location History information or removing Location History entirely.

Alex has screen shots of the old dashbaord but now you get is the ability to see specific dates or a record of the past 30 days or so.

You can also access this at maps.google.com/locationhistory.