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Seen via Boing Boing, seen via
Battelle, this list of the top Google
AdWords. We're not ashamed to admit that we're amazed at the strong showing of mesothelioma on the list... hell, we had to look it up. Who knew absestos huffers were such a lucrative clientele? The rest of the list, of course, is an interesting vivisection of the American psyche: debt and lawsuits are the biggest businesses.
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complaints
Yikes. Reader Charlie Flint just wrote in with this horror story. The short: Google bills him $3,000 dollars for an
Adwords account that he doesn't actually have. To our untrained eye, this sounds very much like someone has gotten his bank details somehow and is using Google Adwords to funnel money out of his account, but we're no experts. Can anyone with similar or not-so-similar experience tell Charlie what the hell is going on and what he can do about it?
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