Class-Action in Session: Yahoo Accused
On Monday, the Washington Post reported a story that’s just getting traction in the blogs: Yahoo!’s been hit with a class action suit that alleges the firm engages in syndication fraud, showing ads through spyware, adware, and on so-called “typosquatting” pages instead of in search results or on legit publisher network partner sites.
Typosquatters park themselves on inactive domains that are typically one letter away from the web address of popular websites - switch the last two letters of “expedia,” add a “.com” and you get the Post’s example.
Such sites usually consist of little more than lists of paid advertisements. The suit levels some pretty heavy accusations against Y!, charging that they cooperate with typosquatters by serving ads for the ‘real’ site on the parked domain page - a click on that ad would levy a fee from the advertiser that Yahoo! and the ad-serving page would share.
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2006/05/class_action_targets_yahoo_ove_1.html
