Web Hosting Company AIT Sues Google Search Engine for Fraud
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Sometimes, even things in Google land can go south - even if only for a short time. One such example might be having a lawsuit thrust at you for instance.
Web hosting company and ICANN accredited domain registrar, AIT, has moved the United States District Court for the Northern District of California to substitute in as the representative plaintiff in a lawsuit against Google, Inc. that accuses the search engine engine of breach of contract and unfair business practices.
AIT’s claims center on the issue of click fraud and Google’s refusal to take steps against it even though the company is well aware of the practice. AIT claims that it has advertised with Google for years. The law firms of Kabateck Brown Kellner LLP, Chitwood Harley Harnes LLP and Law Offices of Shawn Khorrami are representing AIT in the action.
Last December, Google’s Chief Financial Officer told an investors’ conference about the threat posed by click fraud. The lawsuit, which seeks class action status, questions the seriousness of Google’s efforts to combat the click fraud threat.
Clarence Briggs, AIT’s Chief Executive Officer had this to say, ”Google is able to block spamming efforts from its own Google Gmail service and should do the same to protect its pay-per-click advertising clients. However, Google chooses to do nothing because substantive action would both invalidate the current paid search model and because a lot of people are making a lot of money from this. We have been watching this and documenting it for some time, not only for ourselves but for our customers from our network and several other networks and we have the technical expertise to prove without a doubt that it is happening and that Google could do something about it if they wanted to.” [Read the rest]
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Dr. Kenneth Maresak, Ph.D.
February 1st, 2007
at 8:55pm
“AIT.COM CEO Clarence Briggs Charged with Criminal Assault”
Posted on: December 15, 2006, 1:49 PM PST
Story: Google, Yahoo and others team up against click fraud
A Person responsible for many of the accusations against lots of other companies regarding click fraud is Clarence Briggs of AITCOM.NET
However, there are multiple reports of known questionable activities of AIT.COM itself and its CEO Clarence Briggs:
NEWS REPORT:
“AIT CEO Clarence Briggs Charged with Criminal Assault”
“Business executive and soldier get in fight”
09/18/05 at 6:28pm
Fayetteville Observer Newspaper
http://www.fayettevillenc.com ):
Business executive, soldier in fight
By Paul Woolverton Staff writer
Clarence Briggs, the chief executive of Advanced Internet Technologies, has been charged with knocking an Army soldier to the ground Aug. 26, hitting him in the face and smashing his head into the concrete.
Briggs, in turn, has charged the soldier, Staff Sgt. Rodney Goudy of Fort Bragg, with throwing him to the ground and threatening to kill him.
The violence happened outside the B&B Sports Tavern on Person Street in downtown Fayetteville, records say.
AIT’s chief financial officer, Steve Young, has also filed a charge against Goudy from the incident. Young accuses the soldier of threatening to hurt him.
AIT is an international Internet Web-hosting company that Briggs started in his home in Fayetteville in 1996. Its headquarters now fills much of a city block in downtown Fayetteville.
Briggs and Goudy are scheduled to face their charges in Cumberland County District Court on Monday. However, court and Fayetteville police records say that Briggs has not yet been served with the warrant charging him with assaulting Goudy.
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Goudy, Briggs and Young presented varied accounts of what happened at the bar.
In his charge, Goudy wrote, “Mr. Briggs asked me to go outside to discuss something because the music inside of B&B Sports Bar was loud. When we turned the corner, Mr. Briggs had his arm around me like we were old friends and he stuck his leg out, grabbed me and threw me on the ground, sat on me and proceeded to hit me in the face. He threw my head back into the concrete.”
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Goudy declined a request for an interview. Goudy’s lawyer, David Courie, said that his law firm is “investigating scope, severity and frequencies of their alleged behavior,” but declined to make further comment.
Young also declined an interview request. Briggs referred questions to AIT spokesman Alex Lekas.
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Staff writer Paul Woolverton can be reached woolvertonp@fayettevillenc.com or at 486-3512.