Man sues Google over AdSense cancellation, wins!

[coglethorpe]

The little guy who fought back:

Aaron Greenspan: Why I Sued Google (and Won)

So he got some of his AdCents back, 72,100 cents, to be exact. But the story exposes the strange world that is Google's advertising empire.

 

[theNOTO]

Cool story. Lots of time invested for $700 though.

 

[frequentdriver]

I enjoyed reading the story. I did have to laugh when google's rep said that google had already refunded the money to its advertisers. I don't believe one word of that statement.

More people need to do this type of stuff to keep google honest.

 

[kingofsp]

Google is just lucky they didn't have to face Chi-city in court.

 

[kblessinggr]

"But it's not fair!" Google's paralegal protested. "What if everyone whose account was canceled sued Google?"

I'd need to see a court transcript to believe that might have been said (as that). And why is a paralegal even using the term "fair"?

 

[ranzuken]

Lol I like how something on one forum can get passed on to another forum such as this news. =D

 

[mediasup]

Someone needs to bring a class action lawsuit

 

[ecigarette]

I agree with the idea of a class action lawsuit. Imagine if all the little guys banded together. It would be a mob of angry geeks.

 

[tekkiegurl]

congratz to the man he sure have a lot money after winning a case like that

 

[pandaexpress]

nice find on the article

 

[HarveyJ]

congratz to the man he sure have a lot money after winning a case like that

Errr, no... If you botheredto read the article, it's over roughly $700.

He'd have done this in small claims court, where you don't get lawyers or appeals. You get Judge Judy, and similarly bitter judges who never made a name for themselves, are usually senior citizens that don't understand tech, and generally side with the complainant.

This Aaron guy most likely went through the effort of all this to get some press coverage as well, because people love an underdog.

 

[midnight_focus]

I don't believe this story, if you see the tos of adsense you can see that google can cancel any account for any reason without having to clarify for the user

 

[sean3]

I don't believe this story, if you see the tos of adsense you can see that google can cancel any account for any reason without having to clarify for the user

thats is the point by Which he won the case, Google cannot cancel his account just because he had blue eyes

 

[kingofsp]

I don't believe this story, if you see the tos of adsense you can see that google can cancel any account for any reason without having to clarify for the user

SHUN THE NON-BELIEVER

 

[FortressDewey]

play by their own rules

I don't believe this story, if you see the tos of adsense you can see that google can cancel any account for any reason without having to clarify for the user

The judge did say their needed to be a reason, not just b/c their TOS said so...also, it is highly possible a paralegal used "fair" as she is not used to arguing in court.

Also, i think it's great that google got a very very small slap on the wrist....

One other food for thought....what does Google refunding Adwords advertisers have to do with Adsense? WTF?

 

[auroinfo]

Great post by the man about his experience. I hope this will bring some change in google.

 

[midnight_focus]

thats is the point by Which he won the case, Google cannot cancel his account just because he had blue eyes

Yea they can this TOS are the contract between google and the user, let's say you are renting a house from me and we wrote in the contract that "I can cancel this contract any time without your agreement" and we both signed for this the next day I did cancel the contract can you sue me!!!

One other food for thought....what does Google refunding Adwords advertisers have to do with Adsense? WTF?

Adsense earning based on adwords, Adwords are the advertisers without them your adsense ads will show nothing

 

[GetYourWriter]

This is a pretty cool story, but I definitely don't believe all of it. I think it was juiced up in order to get some extra publicity. A contract is a contract, but the thing that puzzles me is that unless you get a digital signature, is the contract valid?

 

[jewin]

Given how much this guy was spending, he wasted allot of time and money trying to get back at Google. Why waste your time over that when there are other PPC venues and many, many other ways to promote your site?

 

[QAT-Mirza]

Exactly , that what i wanted to say... But still good done with google.