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Some People Will Click On Anything

By Jason Lee Miller - Tue, 05/22/2007 - 11:53am.

Pose whatever theory you like as to why, but an AdWords experiment revealed that people will click on just about anything – even if the ad tells them their computer will be infected with a virus if they do.

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