crisscross - 2:04 pm on Aug 3, 2005 (gmt 0)

I am one of the people that would like Google Adsense to be less targeted, or to be more precise, to allow targeted ads from certain advertisers on my site.

I run a general news site, with daily changing content. One day there is an aircrash, the next there's a teacher who has sex with her students. The stories are never consistent and so the results from Adsense are very variable and weak due to over-targeting.

I would like to work with a human editor to improve the mix of ads we would receive, showing contextual ads in the story section and showing ads with broader appeal and higher CPC (general ads for loans, cars, in the top banner position.

The best solution for us would be to allow both the advertiser and the publishers to choose a portfolio of ads that appear in the best spaces, with contextual ads providing the fillers.