Thursday, July 13, 2006

Google's solution for Click Fraud ??

Wired carried an article by Schneier about the risk Google's revenues are facing due to Click Fraud. Schneier avers that Google's Cost-per-Action would be the right solution to Click Fraud.
Excerpt --

Google is testing a new advertising model to deal with click fraud: cost-per-action ads. Advertisers don't pay unless the customer performs a certain action: buys a product, fills out a survey, whatever. It's a hard model to make work -- Google would become more of a partner in the final sale instead of an indifferent displayer of advertising -- but it's the right security response to click fraud: Change the rules of the game so that click fraud doesn't matter.

That's how to solve a security problem.

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