Google Click Fraud
“Something has to be done about this really really quickly,” says George Reyes, CFO of Google. Click fraud is a way to milk money from the Google Adsense system by having networks or individuals click on your links to make money, not discover interesting products. The problem for Google is that it has a policy of refunding fraudulent clicks–and the more of those there are, the more that Adsense starts leaking money. And since Adsense is the source of most of their revenue, bye bye Google. See this CNN article for more: money.cnn.com/2004/12/02/technology/google_fraud/?cnn=yes
p.s. I had a clickthrough rate of .5% yesterday for earnings of $6.05 off 4 clicks. At $1.50 a click, I think you can see how a few bad clicks would cut into advertising budgets fast.
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on December 7th, 2004 at 9:06 pm
Hehehe. That’s an old story. As soon as advertisers started clickthru rates many sneaky people opened ‘click farms’ or wrote scripts to simulate scripts. You can make some serious money with click faking.