At the Search Engine Strategies Conference in Chicago, Webmaster Radio’s Jim Hedger is holding a press conference which is making public the investigative report that the google adwords and adsense ads being served on the Orkut communities created by Hezbollah, Al Qaeda, Iraqi insurgent and other terror oriented groups are benifitting these terrorist groups.

There are many Hezbollah and Al Qaeda groups, associated forums and member profiles which are serving Google AdWords contextual advertisements.

Jim Hedger also spoken with a contact who was working with the Iraqi insurgency, and was setting up blog networks which serve Google AdSense advertisements, and incentivize their readers to click on the ads. They are also using clickbots, automated programs which click on Google advertisements.

[via Searchenginejournal]

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