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Re:Google Will Eat Itself by mcv on Monday March 17, 2014 @09:03AM (#7414757)
Why would it be fraud? It sounds to me like they're using their advertising revenue to buy Google shares. What's wrong with that?
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Re:Google Will Eat Itself by kreilly on Monday March 17, 2014 @09:18AM (#7414825)
"We generate money by serving Google text advertisments [sic] on a network of hidden Websites."

They are not really ads that are viewable by consumers. Most likely bot traffic.

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Re:Google Will Eat Itself by smartician on Monday March 17, 2014 @01:23PM (#7416484)
Possibly related:

http://www.behind-the-enemy-lines.com/2011/03/uncovering-adv...

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Re:Google Will Eat Itself by mcv on Monday March 17, 2014 @09:43AM (#7414928)
I thought Google was pretty good at detecting that sort of thing.
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