Comments on: Google Employee Sued By ShoeMoney for TOS Violation

By: Barcode Label

Barcode Label — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:39:50 +0000

Probably a cease and desist order and any moneys he made of his accounts (unjust enrichment).

By: The Best Vaporizer

The Best Vaporizer — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:19:30 +0000

The thing I dont understand is what exactly is he suing for? Is there some kind of damages he had from this guy doing this? What can he expect to win? Or is it merely just a "stop doing this" sue

By: Electrical Test Equipment

Electrical Test Equipment — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 11:21:34 +0000

The defendant said that he was unaware of his site violating Google TOS and Schoemaker's trademark, he was dragged to court. He also sent the screenshot of his AdWords account and the keywords he is targeting for the campaign.

By: Always Wondered

Always Wondered — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 22:32:14 +0000

AdSenseAdvisor at Webmaster World has stated – "I'm an AdSense publisher, too, after all."
Google employees are allowed to use AdSense? That's a surprise.

"I thought there were a number of ways that position could be abused. For example, wouldn't it be easier for Google insiders to commit click fraud? Some of them could find out how exactly their fraud detection algorithms work and evade them. Even if the employee didn't work for the click fraud department, a very good friend of his could."

That's disturbing. All the people who are running the show, are competing with us? It would be child's play to outrank us, and grab all our visitors. They KNOW the rules. We can only guess. Their optimization would be perfect. Ours would just be hit-and-miss guesses.

What % of Google employees have AdSense accounts?
How are they policed? Do they have any restrictions?
Is this data secret? Do the foxes run the hen house?
Very disturbing. It could certainly explain a LOT of things.

Our greatest adversary could be Google employees competing with us. Remember Google executive Tim Armstrong and the "Associated Content" MFA company he created in 2007? How many other secret Tim Armstrongs are there out there? I wonder.

By: One Way Links

One Way Links — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 18:48:53 +0000

OUCH -in capital letters, yes.

It would be interesting to hear if the employee from Google was dismissed. I cannot imagine anything less from the giant itself as it would serve less trust among its Adwords users and all others who use the search engine itself.