kensmith - 10:22 am on May 21, 2006 (gmt 0)

If genuine this would seem to be a very serious thing for Google, so why is click fraud not taken more seriously by them? I know it cannot be stopped but they could at least enforce their own TOS as a start.

As I look around the internet I see nearly all of the TOS being brocken. What really pees me off is a webmaster on whoos site my adds appear signing all his posts to public forums "if you visit my site, please click the ads to help pay for the bandwidth".

Another excellent site I visit regularly has just been completely ripped off by a made for adsense site. Years of work and community input copied word for word.

Complaints to Google come to nothing.

Google search is slowly becoming unusable due to the number of made for adsense sites it throws up.

The general usefullness of the intenet is being eroded.

I would like to give Google the benefit of the doubt and say they are a victim of their own success, and the shear scale of AdWords use means that it cannot be policed.

However, I feel empires come and go, and this one will be short lived unless Google can somehow pull a rabit out of their hat.

If this email is genuine then maybe it is the shot in the arm that is needed, but then they must have been aware of it for yonks, with thing apparently changing for the better yet.