Adsense Fraud - Korean Site Drags Google Into David-Goliath Match

Thursday, February 9 2006 at 11:21

Google, the world’s third largest Web site by the number of visitors, may go head-to-head against a 24,592nd-ranked South Korean site in a tiny but potentially damaging lawsuit.

The U.S. Internet giant was accused by Humor University (Utkin Taehak), www.humoruniv.com, a popular Internet community site which mainly carries humorous articles, of not paying the Korean site for having Google’s advertisements on its Web site for two months.

``Don’t trust Google,’’ says a banner on the Web site posted by Lee Jung-min, operator of Humor University, which claims to have some 400,000 visitors everyday. Lee said he will file a lawsuit against Google, supported by the rising anti-Google sentiment in Korea’s Internet society.

Read more about the Korean website suing Google for Adsense revenues at http://times.hankooki.com.