Google agrees to pay $90 million on click fraud lawsuit

8 03 2006

Web search giant Google Inc. said on Wednesday it had agreed to pay up to $90 million to settle a class action lawsuit over advertising fraud (click fraud) by outside parties on its site, in a bid to put the controversy behind it.The settlement stems from a lawsuit filed by Lane’s Gifts earlier this year in an Arkansas state court and is designed to settle all outstanding claims against Google for fraud committed using its pay-per-click ad system back to 2002, it said.