Google Agrees to Pay $90mln on Click Fraud Lawsuit 132
Hitokiri writes "Google has agreed to pay up to $90 million to settle a class action lawsuit 'Lane's Gifts v. Google'. The settlement stems from a lawsuit filed by Lane's Gifts earlier this year in an Arkansas state court and is designed to settle all outstanding claims against Google for fraud committed using its pay-per-click ad system back to 2002Google has made a statement on their blog."
Re:Wired had a nice piece a few months ago on this (Score:5, Funny)
I want to post an insightful response, but Google Girl has stonewalled my thoughts.
must....post...insightful...can't...resist...
And in other news... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:It's credits - not dollars (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Deceptive (Score:3, Funny)
What manual? Did I wander into a Linux IRC help channel?
$90mln? (Score:4, Funny)
What's wrong with calling 90 Megabucks $90M ?
Unless people are worried about conflicting with powers of two, but in any case that should be denoted: $90Mi, or 90 Mibibucks.
Or does mln denote "Millions of dollars worth of in-store advertising credit", which another poster has pointed out is what the plaintiff is receiving.
Re:It's credits - not dollars (Score:5, Funny)
Plus, if Google is clever, they'll get just some guys to click on the ads bought with credit and use up that $90 million in no time...
Re:It's credits - not dollars (Score:5, Funny)
Bidding prices for the adwords "lawyer" and "class action" jump into the thousands.
Lame (Score:4, Funny)
mln (Score:3, Funny)
n mln = (10^-3) * ln(n). It's short for 'milli-log-natural'.