okay...so maybe 800 million dollars isn't a billion dollars but holy crap.
Let me state this again In 2005, there was 800 million dollars in click fraud
The San Francisco Chronicle states that
"advertisers say that 14.6 percent of all clicks are bogus. Moreover,
three-quarters of advertisers said they had been victims at least once."
So what does this mean? 27% of online advertiser have lowered their PPC spending if not getting rid of it at all. (Only 4.2% of advertisers got unsolicited refunds from Google and Yahoo for fraud.)



