How important are "accidental clicks" to Google?


	How important are "accidental clicks" to Google?

egoldstein

2-19-2008 1:27 PM

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google, interent, business, advertising

egoldstein says:

This is an interesting little excerpt from Google's recent filing regarding the impact that accidental clicks have on their revenue growth. If i had to guess, i'd say i've accidentally clicked on 40 google ads in the past year.

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3-31-2008 8:28 AM

msmith99

also, less than 5% of the Googlers are over 90% of the (intended) ad clicks

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