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		rob_lh on Feb 9, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Quantifying Online Advertising Fraud: Ad-Click Bot... Unless this some academic joke flying over my head, the author's contact info is listed as "firstname.lastname@oxford-biochron.com". This report seems hastily thrown together, but that doesn't necessarily invalidate the results. It'd be interesting to see others run it or comment from Google.

mhlakhani on Feb 9, 2015 | [–]

That's commonly done in a bunch of academic papers where authors are from the same institution - saves space mostly

tokai on Feb 9, 2015 | [–]

That is not a joke. That is either email address obfuscation or to save characters.

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