The investigation against click-fraud ended with nothing
In March 2003, federal agents arrested an American who extorted money from Google with a click fraud.
A 32-year-old programmer named Michael Anthony Bradley (Michael Anthony Bradley) said at the time that he had created a program that could click on contextual advertising imperceptibly and turned to Google with the threat that he would publish this program called Google Clique on the Internet if he did not will pay a ransom of $ 150 thousand
Google invited Bradley to an "interview", during which secret service agents were on duty outside the wall and listened attentively to the conversation. At a certain point, when the fact of extortion became obvious, they appeared on the scene and made an arrest. A criminal case was filed against the guy, and Google was actively distributing comments to the press. It seemed that Michael Bradley would be the first person in the world to be imprisoned for click-fraud: he faced up to 20 years in prison. None of this has happened.
Now, almost three years later, it became known that the criminal case was closed , and this was done without fanfare, in absolute silence. The case file for two and a half years, it seems, is classified. None of the official representatives of Google does not publish public comments on this subject: neither about click fraud methods, nor about potential victims of click fraud, nor about the availability of special programs on the Internet to "sklikivaniya" advertising. Obviously, he does not want to disclose the details of this process. According to experts, the most likely reason for closing the case was that Google refused to help the investigation , because click fraud recognition algorithms are among the most guarded secrets of Google.
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In connection with all this, experts have doubts: is Google really fighting click fraud ? After all, it is clear that prominent Google programmers could easily develop methods for filtering doorways. Why is this not done? Is the situation really relevant to this comic book ?
Click fraud is considered the Achilles heel of global Internet advertising. Most independent experts who study this market agree that 10% to 15% of paid transitions are "fake". Thus, in the American advertising market with an annual turnover of more than $ 10 billion, the industry of click fraud receives at least $ 1 billion a year.
A 32-year-old programmer named Michael Anthony Bradley (Michael Anthony Bradley) said at the time that he had created a program that could click on contextual advertising imperceptibly and turned to Google with the threat that he would publish this program called Google Clique on the Internet if he did not will pay a ransom of $ 150 thousand
Google invited Bradley to an "interview", during which secret service agents were on duty outside the wall and listened attentively to the conversation. At a certain point, when the fact of extortion became obvious, they appeared on the scene and made an arrest. A criminal case was filed against the guy, and Google was actively distributing comments to the press. It seemed that Michael Bradley would be the first person in the world to be imprisoned for click-fraud: he faced up to 20 years in prison. None of this has happened.
Now, almost three years later, it became known that the criminal case was closed , and this was done without fanfare, in absolute silence. The case file for two and a half years, it seems, is classified. None of the official representatives of Google does not publish public comments on this subject: neither about click fraud methods, nor about potential victims of click fraud, nor about the availability of special programs on the Internet to "sklikivaniya" advertising. Obviously, he does not want to disclose the details of this process. According to experts, the most likely reason for closing the case was that Google refused to help the investigation , because click fraud recognition algorithms are among the most guarded secrets of Google.
')
In connection with all this, experts have doubts: is Google really fighting click fraud ? After all, it is clear that prominent Google programmers could easily develop methods for filtering doorways. Why is this not done? Is the situation really relevant to this comic book ?
Click fraud is considered the Achilles heel of global Internet advertising. Most independent experts who study this market agree that 10% to 15% of paid transitions are "fake". Thus, in the American advertising market with an annual turnover of more than $ 10 billion, the industry of click fraud receives at least $ 1 billion a year.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/4791/
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