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Google Provides Click-Fraud Stats For AdWords AdvertisersJuly 26th, 2006 Google has released new anti-fraud measures that provides its advertisers reports of invalid clicks through its AdWords system. Advertisers that use Google AdWords can now run campaign and account performance reports that include data about invalid clicks.
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How To Configure Google Talk on Pidgin / GaimAugust 17th, 2007 I faced quite some problems in configuring Pidgin / Gaim with Google Talk on Fedora Core 6. Here are the detailed steps for a no-brainer configuration of Pidgin for Google Talk:
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Free Online Store Setup Using Google Base & Google Checkout in 6 StepsAugust 17th, 2006 6 steps to setup your free online store using Google Base & Google Checkout. Click on the "Sign In" link on the Google Base homepage.
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Authors Guild Files Class Action Lawsuit Against GoogleSeptember 21st, 2005 The Authors Guild and a Lincoln biographer, a children's book author, and a former Poet Laureate of the United States filed a class action suit today in federal court in Manhattan against Google over its unauthorized scanning and copying of books through its Google Library program. The suit alleges that Google is engaging in massive copyright infringement at the expense of the rights of individual writers.
Free Privacy Protection Web Browser - Browsezilla is Click Fraud Engine for Porn SitesJune 26th, 2006 Free web browser - Browsezilla promotes itself as a tool for privacy protection. It is actually a click-fraud engine for pornographic sites, said security vendor Panda Software.
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Google Down!January 8th, 2008 It has been several hours since Google search went down. Google services on google.com domain, including but not limited to GMail or Google Analytics, Google Adsense etc., are down too while blogsearch.google.com is up and running.
Google AdSense Changes Its Own Rule for ImDB?September 3rd, 2008 I don't get Google AdSense. Last year with great fanfare they announced making the text of the ad non-linkable while keeping the title and URL linkable.
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December 12th, 2005 at 2:19 am
[...] Angsuman learns that a lawsuit has been filed against Google for click-fraud. [...]
January 17th, 2006 at 8:51 am
AIT should not be throwing rocks at Google as they themselves live in a glass house. Just take a look at all the unhappy AIT customers here: http://www.aitsucks.com. Also, their CEO Clarence Briggs is being sued for posting someone’s SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER on a web site that AIT owns!!! Talk about unscrupulous!
June 5th, 2006 at 12:58 pm
This is interesting because I’m using Yahoo! mail service and they do not delete scams from anyone’s mailbox.
There is no reason not to do that, and yet they just let it be. I suppose they think that could be in invasion of privacy.
I think that the large ISPs could be taken to court for leaving fraudulent emails in people’s mailboxes. After all, many users could lose their money using their free services.
And I know what it takes to remove scam emails from a mail box: no much at all.
I’m not worried for myself since I’m very cautious, but many people do get caught! And we could save the western world a few bucks… we already did donate a lot to Africa if my memory is good… (in reference to the Nigeria 419 Scam — but look closely, the whole Earth is doing it now!)