Widestrides - 4:11 pm on Jun 13, 2008 (gmt 0)

"Google had better have a 'Yahoo Search Results ONLY' choice on their interface - otherwise, I'm not interested."

"I just sent an email to my AdWords team saying the exact same thing."

Are you saying you want to choose "Yahoo Search Results Only" and not the other search network partners? You can already choose to run your ads on only Google search and not the network of search partners.

At any rate, this makes AdWords even more powerful and they have been raising the minimum bids on keywords swiftly and steeply. Now your cheap clicks on Yahoo will be buried or replaced by higher priced AdWords advertisers.

Google has put the smaller online retailers (and of course, affiliates) out of business with their steep increases in the minimum bids. They want to offer fewer ads at higher click costs and they would rather repeat those ads on the deeper search result pages than run any 10 cent ads.