It took Theresa B. Bradley and
her staff 100 hours for "placing and reviewing HTML code for Google AdSense" on
her site, BravaCorp.com. Although Google's AdSense terms &
policies clearly
states "Please note that clicking on your own ads for any reason is prohibited,
to avoid potential inflation of advertiser costs", Bradley clicked her own ads
"to verify that the advertisers were not selling competing products" (Google
provides a
Preview Tool that helps customers judge the quality of AdSense
advertisements on their site). It didn't take long and Google suspended her
account.
Bradley now decided to sue
Google for $250,000 in San Francisco federal district court because it took her
so long to place and review AdSense advertisements on her web site. So let us do
a little math: 250.000 dollars for 100 hours, that makes 2.500 dollars an hour.
Not bad! But the nonsense continues: BravaCorp.com is not a very big web site:
Only about 50 pages. So it took 2 hours to include the AdSense code into one
page!
The suit also accuses Google of
fraud and misrepresentation, including misrepresentation in commercial
advertising, and of "willfull, wanton, fraudulent and malicious" conduct
regarding its AdSense product.