Press Release: K9 Technology President Files a Lawsuit Against Google
Simon Raban, K9 Technology’s president and founder, filed a lawsuit in a Pennsylvania district court against Google for violating their own service Terms & Conditions by refusing to credit K9 Technology for erroneous and incorrect search advertising billing by overstating ad clicks and making other errors.
Simon Raban founded the K9 Technology LLC that offers the most innovative property security services based on sophisticated AI video surveillance technology combined with highly trained protection canines in 2024. Mr. Raban counted on Google search advertisement to promote K9 Technology’s solutions and services.
As Google controls 90 percent of the Internet search market, our company focused on Google Search advertising. To our great surprise, we quickly discovered that Google over counts ad clicks by over 70 percent! Google even documented the possibility of over-charging customers in its Terms & Conditions but promised to refund the overages once reported. Google, however, refused to acknowledge these various billing errors and refused to refund the overages.
As this practice makes it unaffordable for K9 Technology LLC to effectively promote our services, we were forced to file a lawsuit against Google in the local district court (Pennsylvania District Court MDJ-15-2-01 Docket No. MJ-15201-CV-0000267-2024). As of latest update, the court scheduled to hear this civil complaint on March 6, 2025, at 10:30am (see update below).
We feel that we fight for thousands of small businesses like ours that are routinely overcharged by Google. Google is taking advantage of its monopolistic position in the marketplace to overcharge businesses for Internet search advertising while refusing to provide relief as per its own agreement.
Please contact K9 Technology for more information regarding this important lawsuit. We welcome the public and the free press to attend the court hearing.
K9 Technology is not the only company that accused Google in reporting erroneous clicks. Here is just a small sample of lawsuits Google lost and settled:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/google-settles-fraud-case-for-90m
https://www.clickguard.com/blog/the-click-fraud-lawsuits-all-marketers-should-know-about/https://www.clickguard.com/blog/the-click-fraud-lawsuits-all-marketers-should-know-about/
Below are copies of the court documents.
February 11, 2025 update: Simon Raban motioned the court to consider whether there was any conflict of interest as some on court’s staff seemed to have a relationship with the attorney representing Google. The judge just agreed to recuse himself from this case. The trial will be moved to another district court in the area and rescheduled.
The new court scheduled the heading for March 6, 2025, at 10:30 am at the Phoenixville district court.