Judge Approves $90 Million Settlement In Google Case

KTHV - Little Rock / AP ^ | 7/27/2006 | Monica Rued / AP

[hsrazorback1]

A Miller County circuit judge has approved a $90 million settlement in a class-action case against Internet search engine leader Google.

Circuit Judge Joe Griffin said the settlement was fair and reasonable. It includes $30 million to the lawyers representing businesses that alleged Google didn't do enough to prevent so-called click fraud on its site.

[hsrazorback1]

So you win the case against Google for charging you for fraudulent clicks, and what do you get? More (unverifiable) clicks!

[2banana]

Google is soooo overvalued and based on hype...

[hsrazorback1]

My next thought:

Do the attorneys get paid in clicks?

[traditional1]

"It includes $30 million to the lawyers representing businesses that alleged Google didn't do enough "

And to the "Plaintiffs" (the people who were supposedly harmed), they each get a T-Shirt saying "I won $90 Million in a lawsuit, and all I got was this lousy T-Shirt...."

That's the way this wealth-redistribution scheme by Lawyers works........from someone elses' deep pockets into ours.

[mkjessup]

90 million is chump change to Google.

[q_an_a]

there should be a payment to the people like myself that KNEW there was no accurate way that they tracked this and that complaints showed that Google was over charging others so why should I buy into their tricks? Why a payment? Because the guys who are cheating also are driving business away form existing sites.

[Andy from Beaverton]

[traditional1]

You are correct....in most cases, the Lawyers only, are the winners, and those that are harmed are not recipients of anything but the grief/losses that were caused.

Loss of business/goodwill costs you but that's not what these cases are about at all. It's just a way for Lawyers to appropriate funds from others to themselves, under the guise of representing the actual agrieved parties. It happens every day.