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How to disable your competitor's ad campaign

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Macro

7:51 pm on Feb 3, 2005 (gmt 0)

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"Security researchers have discovered a way to shut down or seriously impair a Google Adwords advertising campaign .....By disabling targeted keywords across many advertisers' campaigns simultaneously by artificially inflating the number of times an ad is displayed an attacker can secure a higher ad position," "

[theregister.co.uk...]

Or is this already being discussed here?

eWhisper

7:55 pm on Feb 3, 2005 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



It's also called impression spamming. It's been discussed a few times.

Here's one I can recall:
[webmasterworld.com...]