It’s about time! Publishers have been cheating this affiliate program since the day it launched. Capitalizing on the inexperience of Google, a poorly drafted Terms and Conditions, and their reluctancy to play hard ball.

This action was filed in the San Clara County Superior Court on November 15, 2004. Click here to read the court summary in a new window. Naturally, the defendants in this case are assumed innocent until proven guilty however their is another troubling aspect to this action. Google already paid Auction Expert International L.L.C. and it’s principals named Sergio Morfin and Alexei Leonov. Why? Where was the audit? Did Google actually think that Fraudsters return funds?
Let’s hope that this action is the first of many more to come and that Google also eliminates many of the top rankings for some of the “cheater tools” from their very own Search Engine.

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