Google Has No Adsense.com

[tsutton]

Just spotted this...

The owners of the domain adsense.com have been fielding hundreds of customer service e-mails and phone calls regarding Google's AdSense program since the advertising service launched in March 2003.

Unfortunately for the domain registrants, they have no connection with Google, except for the fact that they happen to share the name.

Alexis Garrett, marketing director and co-founder of AdSense Consulting, a Eugene, Oregon-based marketing and design company, registered the URL in 1996. Call the number listed until recently on adsense.com, and she'll likely answer the phone. But she'd rather you didn't, unless you're an actual prospective customer.

More here (http://www.wired.com/news/technology/internet/0,71373-0.html?tw=rss.technology)

[tsutton]

From wired.com

Google's $6 billion-a-year advertising business is at risk because it can't be sure that anyone is looking at its ads. The problem is called click fraud, and it comes in two basic flavors.

With network click fraud, you host Google AdSense advertisements on your own website. Google pays you every time someone clicks on its ad on your site. It's fraud if you sit at the computer and repeatedly click on the ad or -- better yet -- write a computer program that repeatedly clicks on the ad. That kind of fraud is easy for Google to spot, so the clever network click fraudsters simulate different IP addresses, or install Trojan horses on other people's computers to generate the fake clicks.

More here (http://www.wired.com/news/columns/0,71370-0.html?tw=rss.technology)

[Jypsy]

For those who are misinformed about click-fraud only being relegated to "two basic flavors", have a look at this:

Click Pirates Making A Mockery Of The Text Ad Space (http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/060718-090349)

[Diddy1]

Hmm...you'd think Google would have bought them out or something.

Thank You

[ho4u]

For those who are misinformed about click-fraud only being relegated to "two basic flavors", have a look at this:

Click Pirates Making A Mockery Of The Text Ad Space (http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/060718-090349)

I actually "used" to belong to a mailing list of a marketer that sent a note to his list and asked them all to go clicked one of his competitors Adwords ads as many times as they could to drive up his costs and make him take his ads down...

I emailed the guy and told him that was click fraud at worst and at the very least it was really tacky...

His reply? Well if Google let's him advertise by comparing his product to mine they are just as much to blame. Ummmm ok so what's wrong with comparing yourself to your competitors? Companies have been doing it for years.

needless to say I removed myself from his list and reported him to Google... the silly goose? Is that better?

[Reprobate]

For those who are misinformed about click-fraud only being relegated to "two basic flavors", have a look at this:

Click Pirates Making A Mockery Of The Text Ad Space (http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/060718-090349)
Poorly written article. Hopefully Google has long since banned those people, their IP's and their accounts.

[arpitgosai]

Have you read the lines on adsense.com :

If you think you can get rich quick placing other people's ads on your site or blog, please contact Google who has taken and used our business name without permission or compensation.

O boy , very strange!!!

[John Doetsch]

So, does anyone think that Google will ever discontinue AdSense program?

[Reprobate]

So, does anyone think that Google will ever discontinue AdSense program?
How much does Google make from Adsense every year?

[John Doetsch]

Good point :)

[golden14]

(This email is NOT about Joel) I trust terry 100% as I do Joel, but here is a tale of woe, one day I got an copy'd in on an e-mail from a so called internet guru, except it wasn't, it happened to be an internal e-mail from a marketing guy who discussed how 'MR X' was next going to promote product ABC , except from the contents of the email it was obvious that MR X only existed in the mind of said marketeers - all of the images etc were false. Now I know Joel exists for a fact, just let this be a warning that there are corporations out there who are now making a move on the adsense/affiliate marketing world.
Cheers,
Dickie:confused:

[Reprobate]

Good point :)
I can't remember where I read it or if it was referring to a quarter, half a year or even a whole year but an article said that Google had paid PUBLISHERS half a billion dollars for that period.

Now if "we" are making that much how much is Google making?

A hell of a lot I would imagine.

They'll change it as they see fit, but it's not something that anyone would discontinue on a whim.