Just read a really interest post entitled Why I sued Google and Won, on the Huffington Post, by Aaron Greenspan.
Apparently, Mr. Greenspan, had one of the new Adword, for domain accounts directly with Google and was making a few bucks parking his domains, until one day when Google terminated his contract without notice and without any detailed explanation.
The post tells how he sued Google in small claims court and won!!!
Basically Google argued that they could terminate the contract, at any time for any reason, and the judge agreed with Mr. Greenspan that they could not.
The most interesting point from this article and one which all domainers should take note of, is that once terminated from from Adwords, Mr. Greenspan went to Sedo.com and parked the domains there.
The results was shocking:
“”””By signing up with Sedo, I could once again use AdSense, but with one small catch. Since Sedo was the middleman, my effective rate of payment per click was somewhere between 1/5,000th and 1/10,000th of what it had been previously””
Sedo payout to Mr. Greenspan was, 1/5,000th to 1/10,000th of what the guy was doing directly with Google?
Interesting, real interesting.
Mr. Greenspan’s post is a good read and raises some issues I have not seen anywhere else, go check it out.
I am having a hard time believing that this guy got 1/5000 and 1/10000 the google payout rates when parking with Sedo.
That would mean that if he is getting .01 per click on sedo then google was routinely paying him $50 and $100 per click.
BS alarms are going off. (not from your blog, which I enjoy but from this guys claim).
I call bullfeces. Sedo minimum pay per click is EUR 0.03 so he was getting EUR 150~300 per click in Adsense for domains ?
Still a good story, I just read it.=)
I can smell one big pile of BS just like what my site says.
BullS rules the world!
Anyway, it is nice to have a good sense of humor.
Gee, its a wonder google terminated him if they were truly paying him $50+ per click. Makes no sense. Anybody know what the domain name is? I find it strange that he did not post this information.
Google are a bunch of jagons though and they deserve to reap what they sow. If they really think they are going to be the internet’s #1 superpower for ever they should think again. Nothing lasts forever. What goes around comes around, sometimes it just takes a while. Perhaps this small lawsuit was just the beginning.
UPDATE
This case was appealed by Google and Google won the appeal:
http://www.ozelwebtasarim.com/index.php/web-haberleri/16573-why-google-bothered-to-appeal-a-761-small-claims-case-and-won
I thought small claims court was a 1 shot deal. Anyway, isn’t the max at small claims court like $5k? How much money did google spend on this just to be right?
JP
You can appeal the decision of any court (unless you take it to judge judy).
This is one of those cases you have to spend more than the matter is worth, I do that on domains all the time by defeding UDRP which are worth less than the $5K it costs to defend