Google removed 80 million ads for 'shocking' users in 2016
In a post titled 'How we fought bad ads, sites and scammers in 2016', Google revealed it removed 80 million ads for "deceiving, misleading and shocking users" this year. In total, it took down 1.7 billion ads for violating advertising policies. To illustrate its technology's speed, Google said that spending one second to remove each ad would take 50 years.