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[ PRIVACY Forum ] Google's fight against scam ads - by the numbers -
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Fri May 25 13:37:12 2012
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Google's fight against scam ads - by the numbers - Big Numbers
http://j.mp/JrZTac (Google Official Blog)
"We find that there are relatively few malicious players, who make
multiple attempts to bypass our defenses to defraud users. As we get
better and faster at catching these advertisers, they redouble their
efforts and create more accounts at an even faster rate."
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Imagine if there were "neutrality" in search and ads of the sort some
people are demanding. We would be utterly deluged in spam. Search
would become utterly useless. Think about it.
--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren
Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org
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