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My guess is, given the scale, and amount of money on the line, the attacks against Google are far more sophisticated than just bots blindly clicking on ads.
by cromwellian 11y ago
My guess is, given the scale, and amount of money on the line, the attacks against Google are far more sophisticated than just bots blindly clicking on ads.
- ChuckMcM 11y agoI would hope so! But even a place like Ask.com is clearly a couple million dollars a day in ad revenue.
- sanswork 11y agoI wrote an ad system that was in part used to backfill Ask in a few countries and even with just backfill I was amazed at how much traffic they were still doing. Though I'm pretty sure most of it was toolbar traffic.
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- spyder 11y agoYes, there is so much money in it that it's very likely there are bots with an AI trained on real human behavior samples, making it hard to distinguish from real clicks.
- ChuckMcM 11y agoActually easier than this, a bit of spyware that looks at your searching/clicking habits over a very long period and then sends that to a big mixer which then replays the same search/click with the same timing and mouse motion. I remember seeing a World of Warcraft automation script being demonstrated and thinking that it was probably used to abuse ad networks.