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Google is a growth engine for European business
Thursday, February 26, 2015
Last month I got an email from a proud daughter in the UK whose mother Tricia Cusden used Google tools to launch a makeup business called
Look Fabulous Forever
. She used Search to find suppliers; she built a following using YouTube to show older women makeup tips; and she’s using Google Adwords to find customers online. To date, her YouTube channel has racked up over half-a-million views, and her company now exports products to 24 countries around the world.
Today we are launching an
initiative
spotlighting hundreds of European entrepreneurs like Tricia who have used Google products as a growth engine for their businesses. We’re also announcing that Google will train 1 million Europeans to learn crucial digital skills by the end of 2016. Not long ago, small businesses could only afford to source and sell locally. Global marketing and distribution were out of reach for all but the biggest. Today, any business can reach a global market using the Internet, allowing even the smallest businesses to be a multinational.
If you have a product or service,
Google AdWords
can connect your business with potential customers. Take
Berto Salotti
, a furniture-maker who has shared his story as part of our project. In 2002, after 30 years of production, Berto had six employees based in Meda, Italy, where they sold most of their furniture. Today, after marketing online through Adwords, they’ve quadrupled in both size and revenue and have customers worldwide.
Eumelia
is an ecotourism farm and guesthouse based in rural Greece that uses Google tools to reach out to prospective visitors as far away as Japan and Australia. The company’s founder, Frangiskos, said AdWords is “the best way for a small, local business to have global impact.” And Dutch office supply company
DiscountOffice
said Adwords "levels the playing field", allowing them "to compete with big multinationals from the beginning.”
But it’s not just online marketing through AdWords that helps businesses grow;
YouTube
has helped European creators and entrepreneurs attract fans and customers using the power of video. Marie Lopez is like many 19-year-old Parisians. She loves fashion, design and makeup. But what makes Marie different is that she has more than one million people around the world who subscribe to her YouTube channel,
EnjoyPhoenix
. Having amassed over 120 million views, Marie is now developing her own line of products and working with top brands like L’Oreal. Today, thousands of YouTube channels are making six figures annually and total revenue amongst our YouTubers has grown by 50 percent in each of the last two years.
Google Play
is also a huge growth engine for European developers, connecting them to a booming global app economy. Launched in Spain,
WePlan
is a free Android app that looks at how people use their phones, and recommends the best carriers for their needs. Today it has more than 100,000 users in 24 countries. And WePlan has gone from five to 18 employees in just two years. Last year, Google paid out more than €4.4 billion to developers like WePlan.
We are excited that businesses all around Europe are using the technology we provide as an engine for their growth. To see more of these stories, check out this video:
It’s clear that the opportunities for businesses in the digital age are immense--there are many more ways to reach customers than anyone could have imagined not that long ago. But, for Europe to reach its full potential, we need to clear the way for companies online. We need a single market in the digital world that reflects the single market we enjoy in the physical world already. With over two dozen regulatory and frameworks to contend with, businesses stumble when they seek to sell, grow or hire across borders. The European Commission has rightly identified the digital single market as one of Europe’s top priorities.
Of course, the opportunities afforded by the digital economy are still limited if people don’t have the right skills. At current rates, the EU predicts a shortfall of 900,000 jobs by 2020 due to a lack of digital skills, and there are many businesses that want to get online but don’t know where to start. At Google we’re playing our part. Over the last year we have have helped
tens of thousands of German entrepreneurs
export through partnerships with DHL, PayPal and Commerzbank. We have trained
tens of thousands of young, unemployed people in Spain
with free courses on subjects like web development, digital marketing, and ecommerce. And, we have shown
thousands of traditional Italian craftspeople
how to sell and market their wares online.
But we want to do more. So, today we’ve announced that Google will train 1 million Europeans in crucial digital skills by 2016. We will invest an additional €25M to broaden our current programs and take them to new markets across Europe to train more small businesses on the digital skills they so need. We’ll build a Europe-wide training hub to support businesses anywhere in Europe to get training online.
Some people look at the state of the economy in Europe and are pessimistic. We see something else: a huge diversity of businesses and entrepreneurs with creativity, ambition, and talent -- all using digital tools to create jobs and boost the economy.
Posted by Matt Brittin, President, EMEA Business and Operations, Google
Big Tent braves the beach in Cannes
Friday, June 22, 2012
When the advertising world convened this week in the South of France for the
Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity
, we pitched up our
Big Tent
to debate innovations in social media and the marriage of technology and creativity.
Our first session featured Noelle Jouglet from
Kony 2012
sharing how their documentary
video
garnered 100 million hits in 6 days and mobilised thousands of young people around the world to take part in advocacy work against the
Lord’s Resistance Army
.
Bradley Horowitz
from the Google+ team shared his insights into how the social web is providing new ways for everyone from Barack Obama to Cadbury to interact with their supporters in meaningful ways. Both speakers shared important lessons about how to empower audiences for the marketers in the audience.
In the second of our Big Tents in Cannes,
Arianna Huffington
and Iain Tait from Google’s
Creative Lab
took part in perhaps a counterintuitive conversation for a technology company: how to best disconnect from technology in order to recharge your creative juices. After sharing how long each speaker slept the night before, Arianna and Iain’s conversation explored issues as diverse as breaking our obsession with being ‘always on’, the Tetris challenge of your inbox and making time for your soul.
After this busy week of
Big Tents
we’ll be recharging our batteries ahead of our next event in Sendai, Japan on the role of technology in preparing and responding to crises.
Posted by Jon Steinberg, External Relations
Making our ads better for everyone
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Cross-posted from the
Official Google Blog
We believe that ads are useful and relevant information that can help you find what you’re looking for online—whether you’re comparing digital cameras or researching new cars. We also want you to be able to use Google and click on any ads that interest you with confidence. Just as we work hard to
make Gmail free of spam
and
malware
, we’re committed to enforcing rigorous standards for the ads that appear on Google and on our
partner sites
.
Like all other Internet companies, we’re fighting a war against a huge number of bad actors—from websites selling counterfeit goods and fraudulent tickets to underground international operations trying to spread malware and spyware. We must remain vigilant because scammers will always try to find new ways to abuse our systems. Given the number of searches on Google and the number of legitimate businesses who rely on this system to reach users, our work to remove bad ads must be precise and at scale.
We recently made some improvements to help ensure the ads you see comply with our strict policies, so we wanted to give you an overview of both our principles and these new technologies.
Ads that harm users are not allowed on Google
We’ve always approached our ads system with trust and safety in mind. Our
policies
cover a wide range of issues across the globe in every country in which we do business. For example, our ads policies don’t allow ads for illegal products such as
counterfeit goods
or harmful products such as
handguns or cigarettes
. We also don’t allow ads with misleading claims (“lose weight guaranteed!”), fraudulent work-at-home scams (
“get rich quick working from home!”
) or
unclear billing practices
.
How it all works
With billions of ads submitted to Google every year, we use a combination of sophisticated technology and manual review to detect and remove these sorts of ads. We spend millions of dollars building technical architecture and advanced machine learning models to fight this battle. These systems are designed to detect and remove ads for
malicious download sites
that contain
malware or a virus
before these ads could appear on Google. Our automated systems also scan and review landing pages—the websites that people are taken to once they click—as well as advertiser accounts. When potentially objectionable ads are flagged by our automated systems, our policy specialists review the ads, sites and accounts in detail and take action.
Improvements to detection systems
Here are some important improvements that we’ve recently made to our systems:
Improved “query watch” for counterfeit ads: While anyone can
report counterfeit ads
, we’ve widened our proactive monitoring of sensitive keywords and queries related to counterfeit goods which allows us to catch more counterfeit ads before they ever appear on Google
New “risk model” to detect violations: Our computer scanning depends on detailed risk models to determine whether a particular ad may violate our policies, and we recently upgraded our engineering system with a new “risk model” that is even more precise in detecting advertisers who violate our policies
Faster manual review process: Some ads need to be reviewed manually. To increase our response time in preventing ads from policy-violating advertisers, we sped up our internal processes and systems for manual reviews, enabling our specialists to be more precise and fast
Twenty-four hour response time: We aim to respond within 24 hours upon receiving a reliable complaint about an ad to ensure that we’re reviewing ads in a timely fashion
We also routinely review and update the areas which our policies cover. For example, we recently updated our
policy for ads related to short-term loans
in order to protect people from misleading claims. For short-term loans, we require advertisers to disclose fine-print details such as overall fees and annual percentage rate, as well as implications for late and non-payment.
Bad ads are declining
The numbers show we’re having success. In 2011, advertisers submitted billions of ads to Google, and of those, we disabled more than 130 million ads. And our systems continue to improve—in fact, in 2011 we reduced the percentage of bad ads by more than 50% compared with 2010. That means that our methods are working. We’re also catching the vast majority of these scam ads before they ever appear on Google or on any of our partner networks. For example, in 2011, we shut down approximately 150,000 accounts for attempting to advertise counterfeit goods, and more than 95% of these accounts were discovered through our own
detection efforts and risk models
.
Here’s David Baker, Engineering Director, who can explain more about how we detect and remove scam ads:
What you can do to help
If you’re an advertiser, we encourage you to review our
policies
that aim to protect users, so you can help keep the web safe. For everyone else, our
Good to Know site
has lots of advice, including tips for avoiding scams anywhere on the Internet. You can also report ads you believe to be fraudulent or in violation of our policies and, if needed, file a
complaint
with the appropriate agency as listed in our
Web Search Help Center
.
Online advertising is the commercial lifeblood of the web, so it’s vital that people can trust the ads on Google and the Internet overall. We’ll keep posting more information here about our efforts, and developments, in this area.
Posted by Sridhar Ramaswamy, SVP, Engineering
Promoting small businesses and economic growth in Europe
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
As European Finance Ministers gathered in Brussels to address the Euro crisis, we wanted to share our belief that small businesses and entrepreneurs can be at the heart of Europe’s strategy for economic growth. In our view, the key that will unlock this much needed growth is the Internet.
In order to demonstrate this important opportunity, we organised an
event
today in Brussels bringing together small businesses, European Commission officials, European parliamentarians, business associations and others to discuss how the Internet can drive growth and jobs.
Commission Vice President Antonio Tajani keynoted
the event, and picked up on the themes of an important manifesto, published last week by the Commission, that is designed to
build trust in the Digital Single Market
.
The Commissioner said Europe must put the Internet at the heart of its economic strategy. “I think of the third industrial revolution – information technologies are at its heart,” he said. Instead of “destroying” jobs, he insisted that it powers employment, saying that for each position displaced, the Internet creates another 2.6 new positions. Companies with websites grow twice as fast as companies that stay offline, he added. “Our goal is to double the amount of commerce online by 2015,” Tajani said. “We need exponential growth” to get Europe out of its present economic crisis.
Our own European Vice President Matt Brittin announced a new collaboration between
the Lisbon Council
and Google. In some countries, Matt noted,
the Internet already generates more than 7% of GDP
- a figure that is set to grow rapidly - with much of the growth coming from small companies. “SMEs are the unsung heroes of the economy,” he said. “But the internet can give them a voice.” In order to prove the point, we assembled small business owners from 15 countries, including a Polish butcher, a Swedish sweet shop, a Dutch clog seller, a Spanish baby clothes retailer, and a Greek travel agent. All power their businesses by leveraging the Internet.
The focus of the event then turned to the platforms (generally large companies) that support online commerce. Martin Tidell, Telenor’s Head of Business Management for SMEs, joined by Google+ hangout from Stockholm and said that the Internet is not just for high tech businesses. “I cannot think of one business that wouldn’t benefit by going online,” he said.
Back in Brussels, Frank Jahn, the Managing Director of Parcels at Belgium’s post office said his company was bracing for a transformation. “We are now a mail company with a parcels operation,” he said. “We need to become a parcels company with a mail operation.”
Next up were three small businesses who shared their experiences of growing online and selling in both domestic markets and across the Single Market. Their panel session also highlighted the "
Getting business online
” initiative, which has helped more than 250,000 businesses get a website over the last two years.
The final panel of the day, hosted by European Voice, focused on the policy conclusions that the European Commission, European Parliament and the key stakeholder - Europe’s consumers - draw from the debate. And all agreed that the Internet opportunity for businesses is big - and growing.
Posted by Al Verney, Communications Manager, Brussels
Getting business online in Liverpool
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
The UK's digital champion
Martha Lane Fox
is working to get online the nine million Brits who have never used the Internet. We joined her in Liverpool this week to explain our
Getting British Business Online
programme to get companies to embrace the web.
In September, we kicked off three months of free events in Liverpool, aimed at helping small businesses get online or boost their presence online. We’ve never done anything like this before in one city, and we’re partnering with organisations like the Chamber of Commerce and Liverpool Vision to help it make a real impact.
Britain's digital champion Martha Lane Fox
The centrepiece of our initiative in Liverpool is a travelling Juice Bar. It is currently at the beautifully restored
Toxteth Library
. At the bar, advisers in tee-shirts are offering one to one consultations to help businesses set up a free website, or to imporve their e-skills.
During our visit to Liverpool, we met John and Alison, who are about to launch their first website to spread the word about their Korean martial arts business.More than 500 businesses already have been offered free consultations across Merseyside and aim to help 1,500 by December. To register for the Juice Bar, set up a free website, or find our free guides, businesses can visit this website.
Google's Peter Barron watches a Google Juice Bar digital expert
consult with martial arts entrepreneurs John and Alison
Posted by Peter Barron, Director, External Relations
Keeping counterfeits out of ads
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Thanks to the Internet, it’s never been easier to start a business and reach a huge audience, at an incredible scale. Unfortunately, some people misuse legitimate online services to try to market counterfeit goods. Of course, this isn’t a problem unique to the online world, but as the Web has grown, so have attempts to sell counterfeits online.
With over one million advertisers using AdWords in over 190 countries, how do we weed out the bad actors who violate our
clear policies
against advertising counterfeits? In the last six months of 2010 alone, we shut down approximately 50,000 AdWords accounts for attempting to advertise counterfeit goods. But there’s no silver bullet here. Instead, it’s a cat-and-mouse game, where we are constantly working to improve our practices and tune our systems to keep out the bad guys.
That’s why today we’re announcing three improvements designed to further improve our collaboration with brand owners to address the problem and prevent counterfeiters from abusing our services:
We’ll act on reliable AdWords counterfeit complaints within 24 hours
. In 2009, we
announced a new complaint form
to make it fast and easy for brand owners to notify us of misuse. For brand owners who use this form responsibly, we’ll reduce our average response time to 24 hours or less.
We will improve our AdSense anti-counterfeit reviews.
We have always
prohibited
our AdSense partners from placing Google ads on sites that include or link to sales of counterfeit goods. We will work more closely with brand owners to identify infringers and, when appropriate, expel them from the AdSense programme.
We’ve introduced a
new help centre page
for reporting counterfeits
. That way, we aim to make it easier for users and brand owners to find forms to report abuse.
These steps are our ways of facilitating co-operation with brand owners, which is absolutely essential in tackling the sale of counterfeits online. AdWords is just a conduit between advertisers and consumers and we can’t know whether any particular item out of the millions advertised is counterfeit or not.
Of course, we do more than simply respond to brand owners’ removal requests. We use their feedback to help us tune a set of sophisticated automated tools, which analyse thousands of signals along every step of the advertising process and help prevent bad ads from ever seeing the light of day. We devote significant engineering and machine resources in order to prevent violations of ads policies, including counterfeiting.
In fact, we invested over $60 million last year alone, and, in the last 6 months of 2010, more than 95% of accounts removed for counterfeits came down based on our own detection efforts. No system is perfect, but brand owner feedback has helped us improve over time - as our system gets more data about ads it has misclassified before, it gets better at counteracting new ways that bad guys try to cloak their behaviour.
While our systems get better over time, counterfeiting remains a complex challenge, and we keep investing in anti-counterfeiting measures. After all, a Google user duped by a fake is far less likely to click on another Google ad in the future. Ads for counterfeits aren't just bad for the real brand holder - they're bad for users who can end up unknowingly buying sub-standard products, and they're bad for Google too.
Posted by Kent Walker, Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Google
Learned lunches: the Oxford Internet Institute Lectures
Monday, November 8, 2010
Game theory in advertising content and pricing; the
Panopticon
implications of the Internet as our digital memory; and bringing 30 year old guidelines on privacy into the Internet age - these topics and more are addressed by leading academics in the new series of
Oxford Internet Institute
lectures, hosted by Google Brussels.
Established in 2001 as an academic centre for the study of the societal implications of the Internet, the Institute’s research faculty devotes its time to the study of the economical, social, political and ethical questions shaping the Internet today.
The first lecture of the autumn series was given by
Dr Greg Taylor
, an economist whose research focuses on the microeconomics of search and other online marketplaces, and the social science implications of commercial interactions. Greg presented his
study
of the relationship between the information content of online advertisements and the fee structure used to price them, looking at pay per-click, pay per-impression and pay per-scale.
On November 9th, we will welcome
Christopher Kuner
, Head of the International Privacy and Information Management Practice at law firm Hunton & Williams. Christopher will discuss the Regulation of Transborder Data Flows in the framework of the OECD privacy guidelines and will debate whether the policies that form the basis of today’s privacy and data protection laws are in line with the realities of the Internet age. You can sign up for his lecture
here
.
On December 8th,
Graeme B. Dinwoodie
, Professor of Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law and Professorial Fellow of St. Peter’s College Oxford, will discuss keyword advertising and trademark law. You can sign up for his lecture
here
.
The 2011 calender will kick off on February 8th with a lecture from
Christopher Millard
, Professor of Privacy and Information Law at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, and researcher at the
QMUL Cloud Legal Project
. Christopher will discuss the shift of computing intelligence to the Internet cloud and the key legal and regulatory challenges of controlling and processing data in the cloud. The registration form for his lecture is
here
.
If you would like to be added to the mailing list for the Oxford Internet Institute lecture series, please contact Tim Davies: tim.davies [at] oii.ox.ac.uk
Posted by: Angela Steen, Policy Analyst, Google Brussels
A Polish Internet Revolution
Monday, May 10, 2010
Poland is one of the few countries that is emerging from Europe’s financial crisis relatively unscathed. While many European Union members struggle to raise funds, Poland’s zloty remains stable and interest rates low.
During my recent visit, my former Dow Jones colleague, now Bloomberg bureau chief Dennis McQuaid, told me how the government just had sold off a large state-owned insurance company – and the offering was seven times oversubscribed, making it the country’s biggest ever IPO. Poland’s economy has kept growing and the streets of Warsaw bustle with well-dressed shoppers and the clatter of construction.
Personally, this success is gratifying. As a journalist, I covered Poland during the 1980s when it laboured under communism. Stores were empty then. But the Polish spirit amazed me – how a courageous people could undertake a successful non-violent, spiritually-based, worker- and intellectual-led revolution. In 1989, I watched some Solidarity supporters set up the country’s first free newspaper in a day care centre. It was called Gazeta Wyborcza.
Today,
Gazeta Wyborcza
is Poland’s top paper, part of the giant Agora group. It operates out of an airy, sparkling, shiny steel headquarters building. Grzegorz Piechota, the paper’s special projects editor, presented an upbeat outlook for the future. While Gazeta hasn’t escaped the pain of the transition online, it has embraced the web, starting dozens of sites targeted to different audiences, from teenage girls to senior citizens. “We know we have no choice except to move online,” Piechota said.
For Google, Poland represents a successful laboratory for bringing business online. Nimble, small, family owned companies dominate the economy. Yet most have little or no online presence. While four in every five consumers are searching for information online about products and services, a Google-sponsored study last year showed that fewer than half of small Polish businesses have any online presence.
In order to get Poland online, we launched an
Internet Revolution
campaign at the end of last year, supported by the Ministry of Economic Affairs. The program offers advice on how Polish companies could get online using both Google and non-Google tools, including a free package to help them establish a web domain, create a website and launch their first domestic or international online advertising campaign.
The success of this initiative has exceeded our expectations. Last week, we announced at a press conference that over 10,000 small entrepreneurs had signed up. The Polish economy may ‘only’ rank 21st globally, but it’s clear that the country has a healthy appetite for making the internet an integral part of doing business and driving growth for the future.
Posted by Bill Echikson, Head of Communications, South, Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa
European Court of Justice rules in Google's favour
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Google aims to provide as much information as possible to users so that they can make informed decisions. For this reason, we have been awaiting a series of decisions by the European Court of Justice that explore the extent to which trade mark rights can be used to restrict information available to users. The first of those decisions was delivered today.
The question before the court was whether advertisers should be allowed to choose keywords freely when reaching out to users on the Internet. In other words, if advertisers are allowed to show advertisements when another company's brand name is entered as a search query.
Trade marks are part of our daily life and culture, helping us to identify the products and services that we may be looking for. They are key for companies to market and advertise their products and services. But trade mark rights are not absolute.
We believe that user interest is best served by maximizing the choice of keywords, ensuring relevant and informative advertising for a wide variety of different contexts. For instance, if a user is searching for information about a particular car, he or she will want more than just that car’s website. They might be looking for different dealers that sell that car, second hand cars, reviews about the car or looking for information about other cars in the same category.
And, contrary to what some are intimating, this case is not about us arguing for a right to advertise counterfeit goods. We have strict policies that forbid the advertising of counterfeit goods; it's a bad user experience. We work collaboratively with brand owners to better identify and deal with counterfeiters.
Some companies want to limit choice for users by extending trade mark law to encompass the use of keywords in online advertising. Ultimately they want to be able to exercise greater control over the infomation available to users by preventing other companies from advertising when a user enters their trade mark as a search query. In other words, controlling and restricting the amount of information that users may see in response to their searches.
Today, the Court confirmed that Google has not infringed trade mark law by allowing advertisers to bid for keywords corresponding to their competitors’ trade marks. It also confirmed that European law that protects internet hosting services applies to Google’s AdWords advertising system. This is important because it is a fundamental principle behind the free flow of information over the internet.
Our guiding principle has always been that advertising should benefit users, and our aim is to ensure that ads are relevant and useful. We will study the decision as we move forward in order to make sure that we continue to deliver advertising that is perceived as both valuable and relevant by our users.
Posted by Dr. Harjinder S. Obhi, Senior Litigation Counsel, EMEA
Catching up with the consumer
Thursday, November 12, 2009
In the beautiful medieval town of Visby on the Swedish Island of Gotland, the
Swedish EU Presidency
this week gathered a couple of hundred of telecoms policy makers and stakeholders to discuss the future of European Information Communication & Technology policy. (Highlights are available on the Twitter feed for
#visbyagenda
). We've written before in this blog about the
buzz
in EU policy circles about technology, and the debate over Europe's high tech future is heating up as Member States begin to propose their candidate Commissioners and the gossip turns to President Barroso's allocation of portfolios.
I had the pleasure of joining Esko Aho (Nokia's EVP for Executive Vice President, Corporate Relations and Responsibility, Chairman of the
Aho group on Innovation
and former Prime Minister of Finland) on a panel entitled "Business Perspectives". Although advertising is not usually considered part of the tech agenda, it is the primary source of financing for much of what we enjoy online today. Given the emphasis in Brussels on establishing a
Digital Single Market
, targeted advertising is a crucial ingredient in creating a viable, sustainable online market.
Many delegates mentioned to me afterwards that they had been surprised by this chart that I displayed:
It shows how consumers have switched to the Internet for around 30% of their media consumption, while advertisers have redirected a far more modest share of their budget in the same direction (Sources:
ZenithOptimedia
& Jupiter). This should change in the coming years. In a recent speech in Venice, advertising leader Sir Martin Sorrel suggested that
advertising share should naturally converge towards audience share
over the next five years. With ZenithOptimedia estimating the total 2008 advertising market in western Europe to be worth just under €80 billion, that's an opportunity for online publishers in all their guises to win around €15 billion in future business!
This coming online ad boom should benefit business, content providers and consumers. Major rights holders (as well as long tail publishers) will obtain additional scope to monetise their content, while consumers will receive easier access to content that they have long sought. Telecoms operators have much to gain: extra content drives adoption of faster Internet connections. Of course, consumers must trust the online ad industry if it is to achieve its promise. That's why we have launched two important products this year:
Google's Ads Preference Manager
, and
Dashboard
. Both are designed to give users access to and control over data collected by Google.
Posted by Simon Hampton, Director of Public Policy
P.S. If you haven't seen Hans Rosling's legendary presentations using the Gapminder technology, take a look at
what he said in Visby
.
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