Click fraud is high and keeps rising

• The overall industry average click fraud rate rose to 16.6 percent for Q4 2007. That's up from the 14.2 percent click fraud rate for the same quarter in 2006 and 16.2 percent for Q3 2007.
• The average click fraud rate of PPC advertisements appearing on search engine content networks, including Google AdSense and the Yahoo Publisher Network, was 28.3 percent in Q4 2007. That’s up from the 19.2 percent average click fraud rate for the same quarter in 2006 and 28.1 percent for Q3 2007.
• The 2007 industry average click fraud rate grew by 15 percent over the industry average click fraud rate for 2006.
• Q4 2007 click fraud traffic from botnets was 15 percent higher than click fraud traffic from botnets in Q3 2007.
• In Q4 2007, the greatest percentage of click fraud originating from countries outside North America came from India (4.3 percent) Germany (3.9 percent) and South Korea (3.7 percent).

Via ClickForensics and Techcrunch

Google Adsense - no support, you are screwed!

Does Google give you any support at all ? One of my friends had his Adsense account disabled and despite many mails to Adsense Support (email) and the Invalid Clicks Appeal
they don't seem to respond at all. My friend owns a popular website which gets over 8000 pageviews per day (not named, because his invalid clicks appeal is not responded yet!)

It's just not Adsense, Google doesn't provide any support to most of the products be it Google Groups, Gmail or more . Services go down regularly, and there is nil support!

The intoxication of being rich and big has got to Google for sure!