In search news, it was recently discovered that, for the last two years, a Russian hacker had been caught running a click fraud service called GoodGoogle, and it was found that they were promoting it in videos on Google’s YouTube and using Gmail accounts to correspond with customers. The scam was brought to light by […]

It seems like there’s always coming to be some sort of epidemic, whether it’s in the real world on online.  Who remembers Google’s 2006 AdWords addition of “invalid clicks” and “invalid click rates” metrics?  This particular epidemic was fraud.  Now, a decade later, it seems like the epidemic has returned, potentially worse now than it […]