Click fraud looms over Google, Yahoo

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    http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/columnists/14360231.htm

    Click fraud is to Google and Yahoo what bird flu is to world health -- a problem that's manageable today, but could grow into a crisis without aggressive prevention efforts.

    Silicon Valley's twin titans of the Internet era get almost all their revenues from pay-per-click advertising.

    Advertisers hire Google and Yahoo to distribute the online equivalent of billboards that take people to the advertisers' sites. But advertisers pay only when someone is interested enough to click on their links.
     
    wentworth, Apr 17, 2006 IP
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    yeah i have also seen people make other people click on ads to view the site :|
     
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    google PSA ads at the bottom of the article. :)
     
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    yea predicted over billion dollars of click fraud in 2006 ;)
     
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    google seems to be pretty good at catching alot of webmasters who try to get over on them.
     
    dotcomsdotbiz, Apr 18, 2006 IP