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Article: Google Sued for 'Parked' Site Fraud: Kabateck Brown Kellner, LLP.

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July 28, 2008
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Google is defrauding its advertising customers by charging them for clicks from "parked" websites that Google knows are worthless, according to a federal class action lawsuit filed today by Kabateck Brown Kellner, LLP in U.S. District Court, Northern District of California in San Jose.

Google places ads on Google.com and on third-party websites. Its customers are charged whenever their ad is "clicked." Ads appear on third-party websites based on keywords that the customer selects. For example, an ad for a hardware store may appear on a website about home improvement projects.

The "parked" sites at issue in the suit, however, contain no content or useful ...

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