[ga] GOOGLE SUED FOR SELLING INADEQUATE ADS

["Jeffrey A. Williams" <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

All, and especially Vint,

See:

On July 11th, attorney Hal K. Levitte sued Google for selling
low-quality advertisements on parked domains and error pages. 
Levitte advertised his legal services using Google?s programs 
last year. 15.3% of his ad campaign was taken up by parked 
domains, which are web pages with automated links related to 
a predetermined search keyword. Levitte had 202,528 impressions
on parked domain pages, with 668 clicks and zero conversions. 
For the lack of results, Levitte sued Google for fraud, 
business code violations, and unjust enrichment. The lawsuit 
was filed as a class action, as Levitte?s attorneys hope to 
represent others in the same situation. Just six days later, 
on July 17th, RK West, a company that does business as Malibu
Sales, sued Google for the same reasons as Levitte. The 
second complaint alleges that Google uses ads on parked domains 
to launder ?invalid clicks? on websites that have no content. 
The complaint claims that because Google charges customers for 
every click, regardless of validity, it benefits from the ads 
on parked domains while the customer does not. The RK West
complaint may be found at
http://docs.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/california/candce/5:2008cv03452/205252/1/



  Seems that yet again Google is an increasingly bad actor in the
IT industry, and also seemingly unashamedly so.  Such errant
behavior deserves suit, IMO at this juncture.

  I can surely understand the profit motive, but this is beyond the
pale, if true.  Vint, do yourself and Google a favor if you would
be so kind, and get this cleaned up.  I also hope that the Obama
campaign's recent addition of Eric Schmit to his economic
advisors will rethink that addition accordingly.  I am sure
our members will be giving his campaign this wise tip.

Regards,

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