No one debates the existence of those who would perpetrate click fraud on advertisers for financial gain. Gaining a better idea of the scope of the problem has been harder than pinning sand to a wall.
The Shifting Sands Of Click Fraud
Click Forensics has on the issue. The company, helmed by CEO Tom Cuthbert, looks at
Information represents the shifting sand in the discussion, the details we can't nail down effectively. Search engines dismiss third party assessments because efforts at detecting and not charging for illicit clicks continually catch that fraud.
Third parties think more fraud gets through the process than the search engines want to concede. In either case, without truly knowing the scope of click fraud to begin with, how can either side really make a definitive claim about it?
More information, made available to an independent third party from the search engines and their advertisers, would be helpful. Cuthbert said overall click fraud hit 15.8 percent for the second quarter. Ghosemajumder has said in response to 
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