Posts by Hammond

For Facebook, ignorance is the business model: Social net is shocked – SHOCKED – that people behave badly

Does Click Fraud Make The Search Engines & Social Media Too Much Money To Police It?

Is this the real reason social media and the search engines seemingly cannot control rampant click fraud? There is simply too much money to be made if it is allowed to continue. There are billions of dollars being pocketed by 'looking the other way' and ignoring the facts. It just doesn't pay to follow the rules anymore when the largest players in the industry allow fraud to happen and continue to do nothing about it. Is it finally time to become good at click fraud ourselves to still be able to compete? What a shame.

Russian admits being Ebury botnet herder, now jailed for 46 months

Some companies use click fraud to put competitors out of business. An example is the recent lawsuit about Wickfire's click fraud they used to put most of their competitors out of business. A jury found them guilty but didn't award damages apparently because Google allowed the activity. It will be interesting to see how the appeals turn out. They were sued for $22 million.