Archive for January 22, 2010

Google now has become a synonym for so many things we do in our daily life, being personal or professional. As an example, we mostly say [Google it] when we suggest someone to search online for the thing or an information he/she is looking for. We mostly rely on google some or the other way in our daily life, which shows that we adore google. But, being honest, Google does not deserve it. Even you will stop adoring google for its doing.

 

What I am explaining might be known for years but I have recently came across these cases and thought of writing something for the one which is the biggest source of Google’s income, that it does not deserve.

 

A couple of months back i created a google AdSense account and Google successfully activated it in 24 hours of time. My primary motive was to use that AdSense code on my personal blog as well as some of the legally permitted sites by google according to the rules and regulations. I never intended to make money from the same so there was very few impressions as well as clicks on those advertisements.

 

Most of the readers of my Blog are my friends and family members who likes what I write.so they are the people who might click on the advertisements displayed for the things they are interested in. Now google is very rigid about this and thinks that these might be the paid clicks or the clicks by the owner himself. Even though google has every possible data like IP, location, etc… to track the true clicks, it never cares for the users and straight away suspends your account without any intimation or notice.

 

The funny part is that google does not suspend account the day it thinks that the clicks are false, but it lets you earn the money and the day you reach the amount you can withdraw, it suspends your account. Also it never gives you the money you earned which is now blocked by google and the same money was charged by the advertisers. In a nutshell, google eats your income, never refund the money to the advertisers, and make profit.

 

This happens in each and every possible advertising option google has made available. According to my knowledge and what I have seen, google has never developed a mentality to be transparent neither with the publishers nor with the advertisers. Being in an IT field, i have seen several accounts of Advertisers too and google does not provide any concrete data about the clicks made. At one side Advertisers have to believe what google shows, and at another side google eats money of small publishers without any notification to them. For any complaint to this, there is only one form which might not be checked by google and is just for the satisfaction of the publishers.

 

In a nutshell, people should rather use another search engines which can keep you away from being victim of google.