Daily SearchCast, March 9, 2006: Google To Settle Click Fraud Case For $90 Million; Google AdSense Gains Demographic Targeting; Look Who’s Organizing In Orkut & More!

Today’s search podcast covers Google agreeing to setting a class action
case over click fraud for $90 million; Orkut’s strange bedfellows; American
Airlines goes after a Google Video uploader; Google’s contextual ads gain
demographic targeting; recapping SES NY 2006; what Google told analysts on its
Analyst Day; Google’s Matt Cutts refutes the US Department Of Justice in legal
documents over the search data case and more!

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• Google Agrees To $90 Million Settlement In Class Action Lawsuit Over Click Fraud
   
• Google to Pay $90M in ‘Click Fraud’ Case
  
   
• Google Explains Invalid Clicks
   
• Google Analyst Day Recap
   
• Al-Qaeda Likes Orkut
   
• Google Unites Its Own Videos On One Page
   
• Google Subpoenaed to Reveal Identity of Person Who Posted at Google Video
   
• Google Filings Against DOJ Request — Including Declaration From Matt Cutts
   
• Google AdWords Launches Demographic Site Targeting
   
• Google To Buy Writely, A Browser Based Word Processor?
   
• Tips On Monitoring Online Reputation
   
• SES New York 2006 Coverage Recap

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