Amid a confusing and prolonged oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, many people are turning to sites like Google and its YouTube video site to help explain the ongoing environmental disaster. BP , the ...

The company responsible for the worst oil spill in U.S. history took the high road when faced with the increasingly popular and brutally hilarious fake Twitter account @BPGlobalPR … or so it seemed.

BP is being accused of trying to manipulate the search results on sites like Google and Yahoo, as it attempts to salvage its battered image following the oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico. The company ...

Search any of these phrases on Google: oil spill, BP, or Deepwater Horizon. Take a look at the sponsored link on top of the page. It doesn’t direct you towards, say, an oil disaster recovery group or ...

LONDON (Reuters) - BP Plc has bought terms such as "oil spill" from search engine providers including Google Inc to help direct Internet users to its website as it attempts to control the worst oil ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. BP spent almost nothing on search advertising in the months leading up to the spill.

Oil company bought 'oil' phrases on Google, Yahoo redirecting users to website. VENICE, La., June 5, 2010 — -- Be careful where you click, especially if you're looking for news on the BP oil ...

A very upset searcher posted his concerns in the Google Web Search Help forums over BP buying an ad for their name in Google AdWords. If you search for [bp] in Google, up comes an ad from BP that ...

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It’s well known to many at this point that BP has been advertising on Google to get its public relations message out. Today, it turns out that some of those ads have been violating Google’s guidelines ...

How Much Is BP Spending On Google Search Ads? With so much speculation about how much BP is spending on Google ads, SEW decided to take a crack at the math. By cross referencing data from different ...

It seems like BP is getting away with this either through some sort of bug in Google's ad system or they were given a special consideration for this? Here is a picture of the ad: If you click on it, ...