This is a short post that will be followed by a longer post soon. I am concerned that Google’s great revenue and success is based on botnet-based click fraud to a much greater degree than is commonly known. I am getting a lot of anecdotal information that doesn’t add up and am looking into this more. This could be the Enron of the Internet. If you have click fraud stories send them to jim@reavis.org.
2 Responses to “Click Fraud - Is Google Paying Attention?”
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Kevin Says:
September 1st, 2007 at 8:29 amI don’t have a click fraud story but I’ve ran into a few of those MFA sites just doing regular research.
I don’t advertise much on Google these days as the competiotn is ridiculous.
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Gautam Says:
September 25th, 2007 at 7:47 amClick fraud is indeed a big issue and could derail the internet economy, although both Google and Yahoo keep making claims to having put in place measure to address it. There have been a few “anti click fraud” vendors that have been venture funded in the recent past.
