Google sued over Adwords fraud

Just when Google released better than expected Q1 08 earnings they get hit with a nice lawsuit.  The Plaintiff, David Almeida, who wants to make his case a class action lawsuit claims that Adwords customers that leave the “cost-per-click” content bid box blank when they filled in the CPC form were being erroneously charged.  The Adwords customers have control over how much they can set each CPC unit for but David says that if you leave it entirely blank you still get charged anyways.  He also claims that Google never mentions it anywhere on their website regarding this policy.

Most likely, Google probably has some sort of clause in the terms & conditions agreement regarding this.  If they don’t it’s a different story.  But I’m sure it’s stated some where in fine print.  They have teams of lawyers that look out for this sort of thing.