In the case of big multinational ad agencies, with offices everywhere around the globe, the waste is obvious.

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Ever since Google launched Adwords in June 2002, the company has become a literal cash machine, offering consumers everywhere the capability, as advertisers, to launch highly targeted ad campaigns globally.

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And it banged a drum for digitising all books everywhere, making all knowledge available, and of course widening the market for Ad Words.

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