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Originally posted by deathpunk dan
Turning content network on, as you probably know, means that google runs your ads across hundreds of thousands of websites that run google adsense. Those sites tend to be plagued by click fraud.
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Yep. And to understand why Google will never be able to eliminate all the click fraud with the AdSense pages consider the description here on how the scams work:
(I have no connection with the company)
http://www.sofizar.com/adsense-fraud.php
You may want to be reading some of the
SEO forums for ideas too, if you're not already doing so. For example:
http://forums.searchenginewatch.com/
People do use Google successfully. I just follow them from an investment angle (I keep a constant put play in action on them waiting for their demise), but am convinced that they are VERY EVIL. (Perhaps you've heard their informal company slogan is "Don't be evil.")
Most recently, there was a class action case in Alabama over click fraud. I read some of the briefs Google's lawyers filed. There were some fairly complex issues which I won't get into here, but Google's lawyers' willingness to use outright deception, intentionally misquoting previous case law in an attempt to argue their point, demonstrated they operate with virtually NO regard for truth. (I am really surprise the Judge didn't censure them for their behavior -- I'm guess he had some pretty poor clerks who didn't research the cases Google cited.)
I've heard some people suggest that Google is using click fraud on their own network; at first I thought this was improbable; after seeing the deception they used in their legal briefs, I am convinced it is entirely possible.
I expect Google to eventually unravel as one of the biggest stock market scandals of the century.