[News] Google Condemned For Click-Fraud Settlement

intelliot · 04-30-2006, 11:55 PM

div style="margin-left: 40px;"An attorney representing plaintiffs in a federal click-fraud class
action suit pending against Google in California claims the a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/03/update-lanes-gifts-v-google.html" target="_blank"$90 million settlement Google reached last month/a in a related case filed in Arkansas fails to penalize Google or fairly compensate advertisers victimized by click fraud.br/divvia a href="http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=187001807"InformationW eekbr/abrClick-fraud is becoming a bigger issue. I hope it can be dealt with in a way that is fair to both advertisers and publishers, because a lot of good things have come out of pay-per-click advertising.br

andrew247 · 05-02-2006, 02:50 PM

So are Google not giving the advertisers back all the money that they take back from the publishers after closing their account for click fraud?

imnajam · 05-03-2006, 08:48 AM

I don't think that google wont return that money, but it is possible that some part of money is not returned back that could be because if a publisher earned $90 via valid clicks and $60 via fraud click, google may reverse only $60 not that $90 but will not pay the publisher a single penny so in that way google get extra $90.

04-30-2006, 11:55 PM	#1 (permalink)
intelliot Google Guru Join Date: May 2004 Posts: 2,528 Thanks: 15 Thanked 128 Times in 34 Posts	[News] Google Condemned For Click-Fraud Settlement div style="margin-left: 40px;"An attorney representing plaintiffs in a federal click-fraud class action suit pending against Google in California claims the a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/03/update-lanes-gifts-v-google.html" target="_blank"$90 million settlement Google reached last month/a in a related case filed in Arkansas fails to penalize Google or fairly compensate advertisers victimized by click fraud.br/divvia a href="http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=187001807"InformationW eekbr/abrClick-fraud is becoming a bigger issue. I hope it can be dealt with in a way that is fair to both advertisers and publishers, because a lot of good things have come out of pay-per-click advertising.br

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05-02-2006, 02:50 PM	#2 (permalink)
andrew247 Google Guru Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: c:\GoogleCommunity Posts: 3,420 Thanks: 3 Thanked 18 Times in 17 Posts	So are Google not giving the advertisers back all the money that they take back from the publishers after closing their account for click fraud?

05-03-2006, 08:48 AM	#3 (permalink)
imnajam Junior Googler Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 36 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	I don't think that google wont return that money, but it is possible that some part of money is not returned back that could be because if a publisher earned $90 via valid clicks and $60 via fraud click, google may reverse only $60 not that $90 but will not pay the publisher a single penny so in that way google get extra $90.

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