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Re:Report: Click fraud at record high (17.1% of all clicks) by vaksel on Wednesday January 28, 2009 @08:19AM (#453717)
why would they? They get paid whether or not someone does a real click or not. And 17% of entire adsense revenue is a ton of money.

And the advertisers still get 83% of result, so its not like they spent thousands to get 0 results

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Re:Report: Click fraud at record high (17.1% of all clicks) by teej on Wednesday January 28, 2009 @11:45AM (#453997)
Advertisers can also track click sources, and eliminate those with lower-than-average conversion rates. There are plenty of reasons they would want to do this outside of click fraud.
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