A would-be AdSense customer is suing Google for $250,000 because it took her 100 hours to place and review AdSense advertisements on her Web site, which Google subsequently removed, Google Watch has learned.

Edmond, OK (PRWEB) August 30, 2006 -- Since his book "The AdSense Code" hit the New York Times Bestseller list two months ago Joel Comm has gotten one question more than any other. "Why did Google ban my site?" The answer in most cases is quite simple: The Entrepreneur in question had developed one or more (often hundreds) of the so called "garbage" sites that now clog search results. You’ve probably seen the sites; you do a search on the term and click on the results and are taken to a site that is nothing but ads and links to more ads, many not even relevant to your search. Searchers voiced their frustration and Google listened.

Botnets are being used for Google Adword click fraud, according to security watchers.

Here's a new kind of AdSense sabotage: Liew says that someone sent out a bunch of emails, pretending to be him..., telling people to click on his ads.

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.

RESPONDING TO GROWING COMPLAINTS ABOUT spam blogs, or "splogs," Google implemented new security measures to make it more difficult for users of its blogging service to create and maintain fake blogs. "We pushed out a change that will prompt some users to solve a CAPTCHA if our spam classifier identifies the blog as spammy," wrote Google's Blogger Product Manager, Jason Goldman, on Blogger Buzz. "So far, we have observed a slight decrease in the amount of spam being created." The "CAPTCHA" test is a method by which automated programs that post or create blogs can be foiled--where the user is asked to type in a sequence of letters from a line that people can read, but computers can't decipher.

YOU WOULD HAVE TO BE a denizen of the blog world to understand what a "splog" is, but it won't be long before it enters your lingua franca in the same frame of reference as spam, click fraud, and spyware. A splog is a spam blog--that is, a fake blog that is created for the sole purpose of getting a high search engine "page rank" to reap profits through ad clicks, or to drive customers to an otherwise obscure e-commerce site. Just like e-mail spam, splogs don't take a rocket scientist to create, but can be built by simple automatic scripts or programs that abuse services like Blogspot, Moveable Type, Wordpress, or Google's Blogger.com.

Internet typosquatters are registering misspelled domains of anti-virus vendors and making money by redirecting surfers with Google's AdSense pay-per-click program.

The explosion of spam blogs on Google's Blogspot hosting service is drawing a chorus of condemnation from prominent bloggers, and has led at least one blog search service to stop indexing posts on Blogspot. The growth of spam blogs has accelerated in recent months, fueled by automated tools that can create blogs on Blogspot and some similar services and populate them with keyword-optimized posts and Google AdSense advertisements.

Yes, it's a for-real, honest to goodness update going on at Google, and Matt Cutts wants you to contact Google if you have feedback about it.