Bringing Down Google

Interesting article in wired about click-fraud, which are schemes to steal from pay-per-click programs like GOOGLE. The article cites a "gray market" of housewives in India paid to click on ads for the benefit of advertisers.

Next step is an adware-type program, worm or a virus that spreads from computer to computer and randomly does Google searches and clicks on random ads. You do this on 500,000 computers for 100 times per day and suddenly you have a total an additional 50mm clicks and disruption of the GOOGLE ad market. Or, maybe this is already happening...

(BTW, I don't like Google. It's a useful tool, but I dislike their belief that they are the arbiter of good/bad. If they think an advertiser sells something bad, they won't allow their ad. In a recent interview, one of the two founders (I think it's Sergy Brin) decides what is allowed to be advertised. That's not right.)

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