Google sued over click fraud

July 1, 2005 @ 11:12 am · Filed under Click Fraud, Breaking News

On June 24, Click Defense Inc. filed a lawsuit, which also seeks class action status, against Google claiming that the search engine giant has failed to protect users of its advertising program from click fraud.

As Nathan Weinberg of BlogNewsChannel points out, Click Defense's actions are curious given that they profit from click fraud–without it, they wouldn't have any services to sell. Publicity stunt or the act of a good samaritan looking out for AdWords clients everywhere?

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  1. Mikhail Mayorov says:

    I just canceled my AdWords account with Google. I developed really good site and decided to promote it with help of google. Right after the opening of my account I noticed that almost 80% of all clicks was initiated by crooks. More over, my calculation of clicks was substantially lower than google's one. I just don't understand why they do nothing about it? I could've spent thousands of dollars for advertisement with them. I think they perfectly aware that regular customers just have no idea of they are being ripped off, but since I'm programmer with 15 years experience I know when some teenager steals pennies from my purse.

    August 8th, 2005 at 2:55 pm

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