[LINK] Government Buying Google Ads for Murray-Darling Water Cuts

Tom Worthington tom.worthington at tomw.net.au
Thu Oct 21 08:45:45 AEDT 2010


Stilgherrian wrote:
> On 20/10/2010, at 9:56 AM, Tom Worthington wrote:
>> On my web site today I noticed a Google AdWords advertisement ...
> 
> And yet the advertisement worked, because you clicked through. ...

No, I didn't click though. As this ad was on my own web site, Google's
rules do not permit me to click on it (that would be "Click fraud"). 
Instead I opened the source code of the ad, extracted the web address 
and pasted it into the browser.


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