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Webhost Sues Google
TheOcho writes "Webhost company AIT has decided to file a class action lawsuit against the internet giant Google. According to the article the dispute is over click fraud. AIT claims they have lost around $500,000 due to fraudulent clicks. They claim that Google is hitting their website from 'the same IP addresses'."
The Whole Company is Coming DOWNNNN
Isn't it your own fault that you're a fucking idiot?
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
No. It's yours. So STFU and go back to jacking off in your parents basement you no life having little shit.
Couple of days later, I get an email from an Indian employee of Google saying that they have not detected any fraudulent clicks.
QUESTIONS:
How did you find out the email you got was from an Indian?
Is it from the name of the employee?
If the reply was from a non-Indian, would you be satisfied with the answer?
Can you give us proof the "spike" you are mentioning?
Tat Tvam Asi
If our hypothetical leaflet guy had one of the largest automated server farms and most advanced IP tracking technologies on earth at his fingertips, and he wasn't handing out leaflets but, lets say, charging for ad clicks, yes, he by god better know that he's giving out the same leaflet to the same people over and over. Even if it's not exactly specified in the contract (and it probably is, I couldn't be bothered to look it up now), google has a duty of care to ensure that their customers get value for money and are not defrauded of their money using google as a middleman.
Don't bother passing the crack pipe, thanks.
What he can't kill, he has sex on. Trent.
I looked at my website's logs for that day and found over 50 instances of a request for "HEAD / HTTP/1.0" from a single IP address. What made this even more suspicious was the fact that they were all made with "Wget/1.10", and that IP never requested any other page from my site, not even the image/CSS files used on the main page.
So 50 hits/day is a dramatic spike? A whole lotta business you're running.
Pavlov. Does this name ring a bell?
What the fuck does AOL proxy have to do with Google's terms of service, you turkey? If you are offering a one customer per click service, you better make damn sure thats what you provide. Whether or not AOL offers a proxy is not the customers' concern; if google can't work around it they had better make all hits from that proxy free, since they can't tell who is an actual customer and who is trying to defraud a company. You had better be careful around this time of year, a turkey as big as you stands a good chance of ending up in someone's oven! And to the google fanboi who modded that flamebait, work away my good son. I have karma to burn and burn and burn.
What he can't kill, he has sex on. Trent.