Advertisers Receiving Settlement Payments From Google AdWords

In the mail today I received a check for $25.05 from the Hanson vs Google AdWords settlement. In fact, there are hundreds of Google advertisers receiving checks this week. The settlement was reached in 2009 for $20 million due to exceeding the daily budget within the AdWords system. After a few years, the lawyers have […]

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In the mail today I received a check for $25.05 from the Hanson vs Google AdWords settlement. In fact, there are hundreds of Google advertisers receiving checks this week. The settlement was reached in 2009 for $20 million due to exceeding the daily budget within the AdWords system.

After a few years, the lawyers have sent out payment to advertisers who joined the class action suit.

Most advertisers seem to be receiving checks worth less than the postage being used to mail them out. Here are some tweets:

 

 

Here is a picture of the check I received:

Adwords Settlement Check


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Barry Schwartz
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Barry Schwartz is a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry can be followed on Twitter here.

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