Comments on: Google Releases Adsense Feature and Then Pulls It

By: Nedim Sabic

Nedim Sabic — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 11:02:55 +0000

It is hard to stay real and not to make some conspiration theories. But why worry about that if we can’t influence it.

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Fri, 31 Aug 2007 04:39:51 +0000

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By: DazzlinDonna

DazzlinDonna — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 11:32:40 +0000

Ha! Aaron, you made me spit my coffee.

By: aaron wall

aaron wall — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 06:06:02 +0000

Would be nice feature, especially if they added in a feature where they didn’t pay adsense publishers to steal your content too.

By: DazzlinDonna

DazzlinDonna — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 22:29:58 +0000

Mark, I think you misunderstood the feature. It allows publishers to let Google know which sites they own, essentially. So, let’s say I own 2 sites, both displaying adsense. I don’t want anyone else stealing my adsense pubid and displaying ads on THEIR sites, with MY id. Why not? Because their site may be violating guidelines and my account would be suspended because of it. So I get to tell Google that if anyone is displaying my code on their site, that it isn’t my site, and i’m not responsible for whatever guidelines they may break. The feature is a good idea, if it is actually implemented.

By: Mark from Reach24

Mark from Reach24 — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 21:41:28 +0000

I also saw this but thought that it was dumb idea. Which it is. By having an ‘approve only’ list, publishers are missing out on potential advertisers that are new or that they haven’t yet heard of.

Who knows what goes through the heads of them up there at the not-so-mighty-Google but this is an idea that should have been strangled at birth. Pulling the feature is probably a kindness akin to putting to sleep a terminally ill cat.

By: Linky Goodness, August 29

Linky Goodness, August 29 — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 20:49:27 +0000

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Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 19:59:43 +0000

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By: mvandemar

mvandemar — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 17:23:37 +0000

Is Google just completely inept, despite have a gargantuan amount of money and brain power behind it?

See, I think you are missing a very important point in this Donna. The fiscalpsychological equation that directly describes the relationship between money and brain power states that intelligence is inversely proportionate to greed. Up until “Fabulously Wealthy” they were probably fine… but once they passed “Could Probably Have Solved World Hunger But The Profit Margins Were Too Low”, then they started having problems.

A big part of it has to do with the perception that image is more valuable than actual quality, and the way that thought processes can then be dictated by trying to keep up appearances instead of just kicking ass. Sad, really, but extremely reminiscent of the original dot-com boom.