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Of course Google is aware of click fraud, but I know that it's not some scheme they have created to build their business behind. Google is a public company now and they answer to Wall Street. sidebar: For those of you who think it's the shareholders a public company answers to, think again, it's the institutional investors that can make or break a company based on their reccomendations to the institutions investors. I could go into this for hours based on my experience as an insider of a publicly held company during the dot com days, but I will sum it up like this; Wall Street is very responsible for a lot of the bogus accounting companies did to keep their large investors happy.
The bottom line is that even with click fraud, if a customer doesn't get a decent return on their investment, they will not stay a customer. All the things Google is doing (gmail, online word app, desktop browser, etc.) clearly shows that they are planning on being around for a long time. At the same time, they have to show consistent profit growth and that probably has an impact on waiting to address problems that if corrected would effect their revenues.
Look at all the sites that just link to other sites and are created just to have ad words. Personally, I would rather they address all the garbage sites you have to sift through these days to find what you are looking for...
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