Judge won't dismiss suit over Google ads

[engine]

Search engine Google Inc. lost a bid Tuesday to dismiss a lawsuit over claims it overcharged for advertisements that accompany Web search results.

The lawsuit was filed by CLRB Hanson Industries. Google sells the ads in auctions in which companies bid the amount they're willing to pay when users click on ads.

Judge won't dismiss suit over Google ads [latimes.com]

[Quadrille]

Your link sent me to a registration page; I think this link is the same story:
[mercurynews.com ]

I think the case is only just beginning, however.

[edited by: goodroi at 5:42 pm (utc) on Aug. 22, 2007]
[edit reason] fixed url [/edit]

[topr8]

:)

both those are registration pages!

[Quadrille]

Apologies - it comes up for me (UK), and I've never registered with them.

Perhaps a mod could remove it?

I have no desire to help sites whose work appears in Google - but is not available to human beings ;)

[LifeinAsia]

The link posted by Quadrille came up fine for me and I've never been to the site before.

[engine]

Try this one [mercurynews.com...]
They all work for me, and i've never registered.

[Quadrille]

This sems to be the reason for not striking the other two items:

{quote]Google's AdWords program left open the possibility that two groups of customers might be charged more than their "daily budget," the amount they agreed to spend on the program each day.[/quote].

Does that happen?

[topr8]

my apologies Quadrille

- using opera it goes to a registration page!
and with firefox it doesn't - maybe whoever develops that site needs to look at that :)

the most interesting comment is where it says

>>charges too much for text-based advertisements that appear alongside Internet search results.

this is said all too often when we all know that they appear on top of the results too! journalists consistently get this wrong!

[balam]

<OT>

> using opera it goes to a registration page! and with firefox it doesn't

Is it a subtle favourtism, since IE also ends up at a registration page?

</OT>

[LifeinAsia]

Google's AdWords program left open the possibility that two groups of customers might be charged more than their "daily budget," the amount they agreed to spend on the program each day.

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Does that happen?

While I'm not exactly sure what the two different groups may be, I agree that advertisers can be charged more than their daily budget. In our case, it's usually been pennies/day some days (maybe 2-3 days/week), but on a weekly basis everything usually evens out to just under the daily budget x 7 days. And it's probably closer than that on a monthly scale.