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False Ad Clicks Cost Google 1 Billion Dollars A Year
Meshach writes "There is an interesting story at CBC which claims that Google loses one billion dollars per year to fraudulent ad clicks. The article contains an interesting description how how the company determines if a click is false. 'The company explained that it determines which clicks are invalid through a three-stage system. Most of the illegitimate clicks are automatically detected analyzed and filtered out in the first stage ... The second part uses automatic and manual analysis of the AdSense network to weed out false clicks before they are logged to an advertiser's account.'"
Why not just associate ad clicks with google accounts. E.g. I sign in for gmail, then do a google search, see and ad and click on it.
Surely those must count as "real clicks" as oppose to random anonymous clicks. Why not charge more for those?
Oh and feel free to use that idea Google. Just doing my bit.
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Um, what do you think they do when you sign in for hotmail, yahoo, gmail, etc? Only use that to give you email? Frankly, why should I care if google knows I search for whatever? I mean they're providing me the results so it's kinda a moot point whether they know about it or not isn't it?
I don't see what your point though is. I never said only show ads to signed in people, I said, count clicks from users for more than cowards who are anonymous [e.g. you]. That way you can still use google sans user ID.
And as a user, they could actually make it work to my advantage, for example, by not showing me the same ad over and over. Or, personalize the ads to things I tend to search for.
Once you realize that you are submitting google requests over plaintext, and that people like your ISP and EVERY SWITCH IN BETWEEN can see your traffic anyways, you'll be less paranoid about who knows what about what you're doing.
Of course you just raised the "paranoid privacy" flag for no cause because you wanted to troll me. Well congrats sir, you managed to use a web browser DESPITE your low IQ and moral standing. I'm just so happy for you, yes I am. Next I hope to see you tie your own shoes, maybe use your crayons to draw a nice picture of me fucking your mother.
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Don't advertise.
"Oh, but how will we make money if people don't hear about our wonderful <insert product &/or service here>?"
Not my problem, mate. I'm off to Google "African King Beads" and click on the ads a few times...
What part of "a well regulated militia" do you not understand?