Google AdSense funding terrorist
According to Jim Hedger from Webmaster radio, Google’s social network Orkut and the adsense network is being used by several organisations to fund terrorism. At the search engine strategies conference in Chicargo, Jim held a press conference to make his findings public.
He claims to have evidence which is currently being investigated by Google, which suggest, AdSense members who are connected with Al Qaeda and Hezbollah are creating blogs within Orkut and encouraging their readers to click on the ads. In addition they’re using clickbots to increase the revenue from the ads.
At search engine journal Loren Baker argues this is the kind of thing that needs to happen before Google takes clickfraud seriously. When this story breaks, I’m sure they’ll no longer be able to keep their heads buried in the sand. But, I think this particular case of click fraud maybe very difficult to stop. They may be able to identify automated software, but, if thousands of people who support a terrorist cause, decides to do the clicking, it makes things much harder.
Expect an announcement very soon from Google
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