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Adam Lasnik from Google posts comments to the post and confirms that adwords click lawsuit is real and settlement has been reached.

Here is an excerpt from adwords blog.

As you may have heard, Google has reached a settlement of a lawsuit regarding click fraud. Here’s Nicole Wong, Associate General Counsel, to discuss the latest developments:

I recommend that you carefully review the information in the email and visit the site provided by the administration firm: www.clicksettlement.com. On the site, you will find links to the official settlement notice and settlement FAQs, both of which are in .PDF format. To view these documents, you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader.”

Apparently google has blogged about this adwords lawsuit in March 2006.

Now since the mail is real and so is the lawsuit it raises those ugly questions again.

1) How can they get email address of all the adwords users since 1 Jan 2001?

Hold on… It came to my email which was originally used for adwords before google forced me to convert it to a google account sometime last tear. Do they have old adwords account users information?

2) Everyone I know has got this email. Some got it to their email used only for adwords email account, some who have never used adwords in their life at all.

If they sent it to adwords users + others, does’t it constitute Spam?

Is the company which sued google itself liable for lawsuit for spamming and getting unfair leverage in support for lawsuit?

3) The company has amassed one of its kind(possibly biggest after google) database of legit adwords users (those who tried to unsubscribe from the email) they can use it for more reasons than one.

Google must come with explantion as to how they got all those email addresses.

http://adwords.blogspot.com/2006/05/lanes-gifts-v-google-settlement.html