Bloggasm

Ok, this woman, Theresa B. Bradley, admits that she clicked on her own ads on her website, which resulted in her being banned from Google Adsense. Her claim was that she was testing the ads for competitors, but either way, she was. 1. Still profiting off those clicks, 2. Providing fraudulent clicks that the advertiser wasn’t making any money off of:

Steve Bryant at eWeek reports that a woman has sued Google after she was suspended from the program for clicking on her own ads. Theresa B. Bradley filed a lawsuit against Google for $250,000 for fraud and misrepresentation, even though she admits she clicked her own ads “to verify that the advertisers were not selling competing products”.

The site in question is [URL REMOVED], and she claims it took her staff 100 hours for “placing and reviewing HTML code for Google AdSense” on her site which seems to have under a few dozen pages. In addition, Bradley is also claiming her “brief business relationship with Google caused her irreparable harm by damaging her reputation and the reputation of her products and services.”

This is, of course, a bullshit law-suit. Click fraud is such a huge problem that nobody can blaim Google for banning people for life, it’s the only way they can even make a dent in it. People like this are the ones who are going to ruin it for the rest of us.