Hacking Google Adwords

I just want to add to this that the link in the story is to Jason Cain's Blog an all around good guy and is the one that broke the story.

i agree - i heard it second hand from successguru @ seochat (is that jason cain?)

Two links to his site not enough jason? :)

i think he wanted some anchor text :D

Nope, 2 is fine. It wasn't so much about links but recognition to the primary source

>Source: Hacking Google Adwords

would seem to cover it, but whatever - have a great night, im off to watch a bit of telly - back a bit later :)

The Defcon presentation (which isn't terribly interesting IMO) was about exploiting the (brief) interlude between Adwords campaigns getting started and getting cut off for violating terms. Nothing new at all, just some dude who got chapped at Google and linked to by a bunch of folks who (for the most part) didn't see the presentation or understand it if they did.

The Engadget/Adsense situation is not the same thing, although it's similar in one sense... the blogosphere rages in familiar "tempest in a teapot" fashion over something that happens with a lot of large sites that drive a lot of traffic & generate a lot of profits for Google. "Evil" is a sliding scale based on income, at least on the paid side of the 'Plex.