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 :1orglaugh

news.yahoo.com is sort of funny imho. :)

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ouch :)

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....

wow yeah that is definately going to hurt the stock

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

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

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

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...

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

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

that's one hell of a payday.

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.