Had this as a reply to a another thread. Decided it should probably be it's own thread, so ....
Funny, Google isn't talking to the news about their OWN frauding affiliates up the ass. Seems any time a targeted traffic site starts making money, Google shuts them off, says they are using bots and keeps the money. If the Adsense stuff is on a major portal with crappy non-targeted traffic, natch they stay and get paid.
... Which must be a real boon to the Adwords people spending their PPC money on them. So it looks like Google is screwing everyone. And, natch, there is no appeal, no recourse.
Don't believe me? Check (LMAO!) Google and search for what they've been saying for over a year at the mainstream forums! It's adult time in the real world and the big guys are majoring fucking over little affiliates.
Oh, and on another note, know one was able to get to Google to see if they could do anything to curb the Santy Worm last week. Seems they have no "real life" contact data. Once they were contacted, and it was too late, Google said they wouldn't have done anything anyhow AND they don't plan to stop future worms from using their results as a reproductive contamination engine either.
Google is quickly going from the webmasters and advertisers best friend to their worst enemy.
... And (brilliant!!) all of this is at a time when MSN and Yahoo are nearing parity levels. Expect Google to be the number three search eninge (at this rate) by end of January.
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