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by marginalia_nu 1305 days ago
Search queries look like spam, like the sort of spam keywords you will find in comment spam. "Free cialis 50mg online pharmacy near me"-type stuff

Best guess is they're gambling I'm backed by Google's API and trying to poison their suggestion data.

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Sorry I don't follow. Could please elaborate. You mean bots do query 'cialis' to get an ad-sense ad, while they are the same guys benefiting from ads shown? Or what? I genuinely want to understand the problem and most importantly the motivation.
I don't understand the motivation either, but I think what they are attempting is to make e.g. typing cialis into Google suggest specific queries like the one i showed, which may be so overspecified they provide the spammers' links.

That's my theory anyway.