The Indecisive Adsense Bot

Just another issue in Google’s automated machine appeared last week with an Adsense publisher being banned after being specifically permitted to act in such way.

The WebmasterWorld story tells about an Internet cafe owner with about 60 kiosks around Las Vegas who created a custom default homepage with Adsense ads and a Google search box. This guy emailed Google, got the issue cleared and even made about $20-$30 a day. He said “People from the kiosk did about 150 searches per day and check out my Vegas website.”

Shortly thereafter, the guy got the dreaded “ban email” sent for fraudulent clicks. Obviously, the access amount of clicks from the same IP address block triggered the click-fraud bot but after the issue has been cleared one would hope that all related parts of the machine would know about it.

I must add that the guy did not do anything against the Adsense TOS.

[via Barry]