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Offshoring... To Click On Ads

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Mon, May 3rd 2004 2:37pm — Mike Masnick
For all the talk of offshoring labor, it seems that many in India have answered "earn rupees clicking ads" advertisements found (ironically enough) on Google, which basically pay people to sit at home and click on advertisements on specific websites to help those sites earn more pay-per-click ad dollars. This, of course, is always the risk with any sort of pay-per-click advertising scheme. Those who stand to make money are always going to look for ways to increase the clicks. While it's easy to pick out automated clickers, having a network of people around the world who are paid to click the ads could be a lot trickier. Of course, this may remind some people of dot-com bubble companies like AllAdvantage - but at least in that (failed) case, advertisers knew what they were getting involved with. If such fraudulent clicks continue on content sites for advertising networks, it could noticeably decrease the value of such ads.
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    Anonymous Coward, 4 May 2004 @ 2:18pm

    No Subject Given


    tell us again how good offshoring is

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    Mike (profile), 4 May 2004 @ 2:50pm

    Re: No Subject Given

    Er... this article doesn't have anything to do with offshoring. The offshoring part was just a joke...

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    sekhar, 6 May 2004 @ 11:12pm

    how to earn money clicking ads

    dear sir ,
    i want to know the detail about "how to earn money clicking ads".please mail me the details.
    thanking you

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  4. identicon
    santanu basu, 10 May 2004 @ 8:20am

    Re: how to earn money clicking ads

    Sir,

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    sunder tanwar, 18 May 2004 @ 2:32am

    Re: how to earn money clicking ads

    hi sir,
    i want to more about earning money by clicking ads. pl. tell me in detail. how much i have to pay or how much i get . do i need a credit card...
    thanks and looking forward to your reply,
    sunder

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    H.Jagadish Prabhu, 29 Aug 2005 @ 2:05am

    Re: how to earn money clicking ads

    How to earn money by clicking ads. pl.furnish details

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    Parthesh, 10 Jun 2006 @ 1:12pm

    plz send me some more info abt clicking ads n earn

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    jim, 4 May 2007 @ 9:57pm

    clicking ads

    http://adbux.org/?r=jmcsworld is one i found then theres http://www.sendearnings.com/?r=jmcsworld
    http://www.clixsense.com/?2083751


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  10. identicon
    j, 13 Jan 2008 @ 12:14am

    ?$!

    go make some money!!

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  11. identicon
    berry, 27 Jul 2009 @ 4:09pm

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    jim, 24 Aug 2009 @ 8:29pm

    Re: clicking ads

    many sites pay, i only join sites that are free and pay if you would like a list free ,please email me.stuffvillage@gmail.gmail.com

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