hutcheson - 11:28 pm on Jul 21, 2007 (gmt 0)

>AdSense can determine topic in less than five 100th's of a second.

But Google isn't at ALL good at spotting made-for-Adsense-spam, as many people have reported even in this forum. Most of the work of reviewing a site is spotting the counterfeits, the pseudonymous doorways, the anonymous self-proclaimed "authorities", the "general information" whitewash on ad banner farms, the "attractive" "quality" promotional pages -- all the things Google fails so signally to spot. (Humans do it better, but by no means perfectly. That's why the most valuable public feedback the project gets is information about the spam that slips in.