Google to Pay $90M in 'Click Fraud' Case - GoFuckYourself.com

acctman · 03-09-2006, 03:43 AM

SAN FRANCISCO - Google Inc. has agreed to pay up to $90 million to settle a lawsuit alleging the online search engine leader overcharged thousands of advertisers who paid for bogus sales referrals generated through a ruse known as "click fraud."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060309/..._click_fraud_6

that will help there stock

Jakke PNG · 03-09-2006, 04:00 AM

news.yahoo.com is sort of funny imho.

2HousePlague · 03-09-2006, 04:04 AM

2hp

u-Bob · 03-09-2006, 04:16 AM

ouch

baddog · 03-09-2006, 04:21 AM

only $90 million? Sounds like a deal

shuki · 03-09-2006, 06:16 AM

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Originally Posted by baddog

only $90 million? Sounds like a deal

Hopefully this will be the wakeup call that makes them inplement a protective system. We all know they could if they wanted too but they make more money if they don't. That is until now maybe....

Downtime · 03-09-2006, 06:17 AM

wow yeah that is definately going to hurt the stock

strobi · 03-09-2006, 07:10 AM

I'm shorting now!! Would love to see the stock tank...

Matt 26z · 03-09-2006, 07:14 AM

If traffic brokers can implement these systems, then Google can also.

teomaxxx · 03-09-2006, 07:16 AM

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Originally Posted by strobi

I'm shorting now!! Would love to see the stock tank...

i am shorting google with leverage between 4-5x of my investment. hope to make some major bank

HomerSimpson · 03-09-2006, 07:37 AM

Google closed my account and account of my friend with no particular reason (except that we both are from Serbia and Montenegro) so we lost over $6.000 because of that last year. We tried to mail them but got no reasnoble answer and after 2-3 mails they even didn't respond! And they have no phone support and will not answer my mails.... Why Google, Why?

So that's enough good reason for me not to trust them any more...

strobi · 03-09-2006, 07:39 AM

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Originally Posted by teomaxxx

i am shorting google with leverage between 4-5x of my investment. hope to make some major bank

Good luck, let's see what the market will tell us in 5 minutes.

teomaxxx · 03-09-2006, 12:54 PM

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Originally Posted by strobi

Good luck, let's see what the market will tell us in 5 minutes.

another nice downgrade today:
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=GOOG&t=1d

Rice_Master · 03-09-2006, 01:06 PM

that's one hell of a payday.

acctman · 03-09-2006, 02:37 PM

the one thing there's supposely good at, they're screwing up at. it's only march and what to we have so far

1. Gov't pissed at google for not giving search info
2. Gov't looking into google's business deals with china
3. Google loses case regarding copyrighted online images
4. Google Click Fraud payout
5. Google stock continues to fall.

am i missing anything else? ... seems like a company that should focus a little bit better.

03-09-2006, 03:43 AM	#1
acctman Confirmed User Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Atlanta Posts: 2,840	Google to Pay $90M in 'Click Fraud' Case SAN FRANCISCO - Google Inc. has agreed to pay up to $90 million to settle a lawsuit alleging the online search engine leader overcharged thousands of advertisers who paid for bogus sales referrals generated through a ruse known as "click fraud." http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060309/..._click_fraud_6 that will help there stock

03-09-2006, 04:00 AM	#2
Jakke PNG ex-TeenGodFather Industry Role: Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Suomi Finland Perkele Posts: 20,306	news.yahoo.com is sort of funny imho. __________________ ..and I'm off.

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HomerSimpson Too lazy to set a custom title Industry Role: Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Springfield Posts: 13,826	Google closed my account and account of my friend with no particular reason (except that we both are from Serbia and Montenegro) so we lost over $6.000 because of that last year. We tried to mail them but got no reasnoble answer and after 2-3 mails they even didn't respond! And they have no phone support and will not answer my mails.... Why Google, Why? So that's enough good reason for me not to trust them any more... __________________ Make a bank with Chaturbate - the best selling webcam program Ads that can't be block with AdBlockers !!! /// Best paying popup program (Bitcoin payouts) !!! PHP, MySql, Smarty, CodeIgniter, Laravel, WordPress, NATS... fixing stuff, server migrations & optimizations... My ICQ: 27429884 \| Email:

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u-Bob there's no $$$ in porn Industry Role: Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: icq: 195./568.-230 (btw: not getting offline msgs) Posts: 33,063	ouch

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baddog So Fucking Banned Industry Role: Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: the beach, SoCal Posts: 107,089	only $90 million? Sounds like a deal

03-09-2006, 07:10 AM	#8
strobi Confirmed User Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Belgium Posts: 7,383	I'm shorting now!! Would love to see the stock tank...

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Matt 26z So Fucking Banned Industry Role: Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: ¤ª"˜¨๑۩۞۩๑¨˜"ª¤ Posts: 18,481	If traffic brokers can implement these systems, then Google can also.

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Rice_Master Confirmed User Join Date: Mar 2001 Posts: 1,582	that's one hell of a payday. __________________ Icq: 31706665

03-09-2006, 02:37 PM	#15
acctman Confirmed User Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Atlanta Posts: 2,840	the one thing there's supposely good at, they're screwing up at. it's only march and what to we have so far 1. Gov't pissed at google for not giving search info 2. Gov't looking into google's business deals with china 3. Google loses case regarding copyrighted online images 4. Google Click Fraud payout 5. Google stock continues to fall. am i missing anything else? ... seems like a company that should focus a little bit better.