Click fraud haunts Yahoo

dutter · #1 (**permalink**) 09-25-2006, 09:23 AM

The company's partnership with Oemtec delivers ads to the Oemji software, and one customer has complained of click fraud coming from that source.

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dburdon · #2 (**permalink**) 09-25-2006, 02:43 PM

David,

I was once hit by a click raid originating from the far east. I traced all the clicks to a Yahoo partner site. I complained to directly to Yahoo. A Customer solutions director dismissed my complaint out of hand. I recommended that Yahoo give advertisers the right to opt out of such sites - as Google do. The response was negative.

As a result I subsequently reduced my Yahoo account to the minimum £20/$38 per month.

**incrediblehelp** · #3 (**permalink**) 09-25-2006, 07:26 PM

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Originally Posted by dburdon

The response was negative.

Completely ridiculous.

dutter · #4 (**permalink**) 09-26-2006, 08:44 PM

The clamor for greater transparency seems to be rising rapidly. It's unfortunate greater clarity hasn't been forthcoming from the big two search advertisers. Maybe that's about to change.

**incrediblehelp** · #5 (**permalink**) 09-26-2006, 09:20 PM

It might according to the Business Week article.