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Webhost Sues Google

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the go-fishing-for-deep-pockets dept.

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'."

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  1. /. Owes me at least $500,000 by Quirk · · Score: 4, Funny
    I've been clicking the refresh button @ /. since the late 90s.

    Gee at maybe ~100 clicks/day for ~7 years I must have driven advertising revenue for the site to the tune of at least $500,000... I mean, even before the site had ads my obsessive compulsive hourly refresh rate drove the popularity of the site to where the guys made an OK buck the first time it sold.

    So consider this post my invoice in the sum of $500,000. I'll take it out in credit at Think Geek, but not in subscription dollars... or, just knock off the dupes, hell, knock of the dupes and I'll subcribe.:)

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  2. Re:What are they supposed to do? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    How are they supposed to sift through that?
    with computers looking for patterns... something google's rather good at if you hadn't noticed
  3. Re:Right off the bat... by amling · · Score: 4, Funny

    It is of course also the origin of the Reston strain of the Ebola virus. Coincidence? You decide.

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  4. Re:Right off the bat... by SCVirus · · Score: 1, Funny

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