Google Sued for Charging Advertisers Without Consent

A lawsuit filed in federal court accuses Google of deceiving its customers into paying for ads they didn't expressly request. The lawsuit, filed by the firm of Kabateck Brown Kellner in U.S. District Court in San Jose, Calif., and seeking class action status, says that when customers do not bid for ads on third-party sites Google places ads there anyway and are automatically charged the amount they specified for ads on Google.com.

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