Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Adword trouble

At the Search Engine Strategies Conference in Chicago Jim Hedger is holding a press conference which is making public the investigative report that:

1. Google is serving Adwords and Adsense advertisements on Google properties within Orkut which are managed by terrorist cells and sympathizers.

2. Google is serving advertising on the sites of Google AdSense members who are connected with Al Qaeda, Hezbollah and other terrorist groups which are benefitting from revenue which is originated by Google advertisers.This does not include orkut as though these advertisers are paying Google for the clicks from these ads, but community members dont receive any thing

3. Click fraud and click bots are escalating the revenue generated by these 3rd party Adsense partner sites, and this revenue is making its way into the hands of organized crime and terrorist groups.Google suppoters say that the Ad Words ads being served in Orkut terror groups was false and the ads were actually Google public service announcements, that Google does not collect fees from such ‘advertisers’, and paid ads are not served within these groups.There is no proof that these advertisers are paying Google for the clicks from these ads, but we cannot imagine the negative brand reputation which could result in the ‘Sponsorship” of Orkut groups such as Al Qaida, Hezbollah and Jihad Net.

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