Man Threatens to Spam Google

http://www.high-search-engine-ranking.com ^ | 22 March 2004 | unknown

[NotQuiteCricket]

A 32 year old man was arrested by the FBI last week after threatening to "spam" Google.

Michael Anthony Bradley faced fraud and extortion charges in a San Jose court after allegedly attempting to extort USD 100,000 from the popular search engine firm.

Bradley had developed software that created false clicks on Google AdWords advertisements. Google pays webmasters a certain amount per click for displaying AdWords advertisements on their sites and Bradley had already used his software to defraud the program by generating thousands of dollars for himself via false clicks.

Earlier this month, Bradley approached Google staff demanding a pay-off of USD 100,000 to prevent him from releasing his software to the public, threatening to sell the software to the "top 100 spammers" if they didn't meet his demands. Senior staff from Google informed federal officials and arranged a meeting with Bradley on March 10 which was secretly videotaped.

[NotQuiteCricket]

this is bad.

[martin_fierro]

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[EggsAckley]

He was released on bond and told to not use any computers.


Yeah, right!

[The Grammarian]

I never liked Google anyway. Maybe Yahoo! will go back to their own search engine now. (I know, I know...doubtful.)

[NotQuiteCricket]

yahoo! does have its own search engine. That made big news about a month ago.

[Odyssey-x]

The correct word for what this guy wanted to do is known as "crap-flodding".

[willyboyishere]

Are you serious, you "never liked Google"? What's not to like? Google is going to be as big as Ebay, works better than ANY search engine ever devised, is FREE, and will eventually be an IPO and stock that will make many people lots of money.

[willyboyishere]

Are you serious, you "never liked Google"? What's not to like? Google is going to be as big as Ebay, works better than ANY search engine ever devised, is FREE, and will eventually be an IPO and stock that will make many people lots of money.

[The Grammarian]

I knew it did, but I thought they had started using Google's search engine. I hadn't heard that they switched back to their own engine, at least.

[The Grammarian]

I still remember that they have an anti-gun bent from an article or three posted here at FR. Beyond that, I don't like Microsoft all that much either even though they're bigger than Ebay and made/make people lots more money than Google.

[Willie Green]

The correct word for what this guy wanted to do is known as "crap-flodding"

That sounds like something that happens when your toilet backs up.

[George from New England]

Google is about the only search engine left that hasn't been excessively commercialized.

I only use Goggle.

[dhuffman@awod.com]

I gave up on goggle[sic] for their abuse of my computer by putting hearts and flowers on the tool bar for Valentine's Day, for their leftist news policy (using joint-o-gether as a news source) and their anti-gun policies. they're just a bunch of lefties making good. So what, who cares,

[NotQuiteCricket]

Yahoo! used to be only a directory service. Then they started supplying search results from Google. Then yahoo bought overture (and something else I think) which has pay per click search results advertising. Then yahoo developed its own search engine algorithm (they are still providing directory results, but they are also providing web search results from their own SE)).

Check this link out to get an idea of the search engines and search result advertising relationships:

http://www.search-this.com/search_engine_decoder.asp