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Google Sued Over Claims of Excess Advertising Fees

Posted by malebolgia on 09 August 2005 - 14:21 · 19 comments & 1069 views

Google Inc. is being sued over accusations that it overcharged advertisers who use the Web search giant's paid search advertising program, which accounts for the vast majority of Google's revenue. The proposed class-action suit, filed on August 3 in State Superior Court in Santa Clara, California, accuses Google of charging in excess of advertisers' "daily budgets," under which Google allows an advertiser to limit how much it spends each day.

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(1 reply) #1 Posted by Netrack on 09 Aug 2005 - 14:56: why cant google just go into court and say " if you dont like our service dont use it?"

#2 Posted by k4nth on 09 Aug 2005 - 15:21: that did happen to me. daily budget feature never worked for me. i usually set it to 25$ per day but it always goes over that. last time they charged me 50$.

#3 Posted by Kaska on 09 Aug 2005 - 16:37: If you look at the agreement, from what I've read, is that you may go over your daily advertising budget on a certain day, but at the end of the month it will average out to be at or below your daily budget.
Ex. Daily Budget $10 a day.
Day 1 $12
Day 2 $8
Average Day Buget: $10. They might need to add average to the line.

(1 reply) #4 Posted by David R. on 09 Aug 2005 - 16:56: If this were a smaller company they wouldn't be suing, it'd just be complaining. But no! It's Google, have to sue them. The court system is abused nowadays.

#5 Posted by jivemastert on 09 Aug 2005 - 17:03: thats so retarded. seriously, if you don't like the service then don't use it. i swear, i read the news every day just to find out whos getting sued. one day it will be me, i swear.

(2 replies) #6 Posted by Ravensworth on 09 Aug 2005 - 17:55: Prepare for all the Google fanboys to come out of the woodwork...

#7 Posted by NetGank on 09 Aug 2005 - 18:35: Is it just me, or does it really seem like all of these large companies continuously get sued over little crap? Its tiring reading all of this, and worrying that someone might actually succeed at taking down an entire corporation.

How do these companies seriously stay alive? Bah.

(6 replies) #8 Posted by MountainSnake on 09 Aug 2005 - 19:15: I'm loosing some respect I used to have with Google. Now they have ads everywhere. They're behaving as a big greedy corporation. I used to love Google as it was in the beginning - simple and efficient.

#9 Posted by jp10558 on 10 Aug 2005 - 12:48: For those who dislike FireFox, there are other ad removal stratigies. I use proxomitron with grypen's set, which will work for any browser on a windows machine.

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