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(AP)   Up to $5 billion of Google's ad revenue in the past few years might be from click fraud   (apnews.myway.com) divider line
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Skyfrog
2006-05-08 2:36:49 PM  
What? But Google is a saintly company that gives us free things because they love us. They wouldn't do anything wrong...
 
WayToBlue
2006-05-08 2:47:32 PM  


img.fark.netimg.fark.net Up to $5 billion of Google's ad revenue in the past few years might be from click fraud
Farkers have clicked on the above link 421,332,593,349 times.



Hmmm....
 
rhyswynne
2006-05-08 2:54:26 PM  
Surely it should be img.fark.net?
 
NJ_WOP
2006-05-08 3:03:10 PM  
I read out this today how people/companies are getting pissed about how much they are getting charged.

SELL, SELL, SELL!!!!!! I dont own any shares because of the high P/E, I am now glad i dont.

/wishes the stock will fall
//it will not fall
 
untillater
2006-05-08 3:05:10 PM  
obvious tag and isnt that part of the risk of internet based business? what a crock, they are only sueing because they know that google has huge cash reserves atm.
 
DavidDCC
2006-05-08 3:22:03 PM  
A lawsuit because they have a hord of cash...surely not.

Pissing off your clients is the best way to turn alot of money into a little money.
 
icy_one
2006-05-08 3:22:40 PM  
I think unless it is Google employees who are clicking on the links to raise traffic, these companies should STFU. Its the nature of the beast, I'm afraid - if you don't like it, don't advertise with Google. I mean after all, Radiator.com gets so much traffic on its own without Google, right? Right..?
 
Walt_Jizzney
2006-05-08 3:30:41 PM  
Another vote for the "Obvious" tag...
 
King Keepo
2006-05-08 3:40:08 PM  
Sure, the internet has always been a little on the shady side, but having up to 40% of my cash go towards pretty much nothing would totally piss me off. Especially if I was doing business with a company with such an awesome motto.
 
WayToBlue
2006-05-08 3:58:21 PM  
King Keepo

Sure, the internet has always been a little on the shady side, but having up to 40% of my cash go towards pretty much nothing would totally piss me off. Especially if I was doing business with a company with such an awesome motto.

"Your friendly local radiator shop" ?

Oh, I got it.
 
gimpols1908
2006-05-08 4:02:46 PM  
If the agencies are so upset about this, why don't the band together and only buy CPA (cost per aquisition) deals for a higher rather than the cheaper CPC (cost per click) or the even cheaper CPM (cost per thousand served). Sounds like someone needs a bit more time in internet advertising 101
 
jafiwam
2006-05-08 4:42:57 PM  
In some cases, it's competitors clicking on the links.

So... Google is somehow supposed to protect against a competitor doing something akin to walking down the street and taking all the "more info" papers out of the little boxes on the "forsale" sign?

Gimmie a friggin break.

Any company that spends 40% of it's ad budget on clickthroughs on the internet is already farking brain dead anyway. Just let the Schiavo-like body friggin die already.
 
gimpols1908
2006-05-08 5:05:18 PM  
SHHHHHHHH jafiwam, don't say that too loud! Maxim might hear you. Then who is gonna pay for my fark?
 
Dr.Robotnik
2006-05-08 6:01:01 PM  
My brain asploded
 
SpaceCowboy
2006-05-08 6:02:17 PM  
Mmmm... click fraud. I need to get in on that.
 
Electrify
2006-05-08 6:20:47 PM  
Sometimes I'll click the ads on a site just to support it, then quickly click back.
 
ratbert
2006-05-08 7:21:51 PM  
Skyfrog: Google is a saintly company

Google is evil.
 
Landofmiddlegirth
2006-05-08 8:22:57 PM  
do you see any companies as not being 'evil'?
 
Skyfrog
2006-05-08 8:45:43 PM  
Glad to see I didn't make my sarcasm too obvious. :P

I was mainly talking about the Google Fanboys, the ones who think Google is the greatest thing on earth. If the company came out with "Google Dog Crap" these people would knock each out to be first to download it.
 
Fnord
2006-05-08 10:28:10 PM  
Skyfrog: "Google Dog Crap"

I tried it last week. Totally awesome, and it made my teeth whiter.
 
meteorite
2006-05-09 1:34:17 PM  
You know, I couldn't do my job without Google (network admin) but they don't charge anything for their excellent search which let's me fix stuff much quicker than I could otherwise do. I also don't have anything to sell so I can't advertise. Since they've been so good to me over the years I always felt I should do something to help them out. A while back someone put an article on here about the search terms that cost the most to have placed on Google. A few of them were around $400-$500 so I did a search for that term and clicked on every single one of the paid ads to help Google out in appreciation of how they've helped me. Kind of a rant I know but just felt like confessing my click fraudiness.
 
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