idolw - 1:16 pm on Jun 26, 2005 (gmt 0)

there are many of webmasterworld users. they represent multiple sectors of economy. google serves search results for all sectors of economy and more. trying to automate everything prevents them hiring people to control the results they serve as well from controlling each page serving AdSense. we can report spammy no-content, keyword packed pages displaying their ads to google, but after reporting 10 each of you will stop doing it.
Anyone who decided to save the world and spent one or two saturday/sundays on finding the spammers and reporting their pages to google? I bet no one.
Why not? because the load of work you do will be so tiny that it is simply senseless after 3 seconds of consideration. google would have to hire 20% of India's population to control the pages they serve ads on and I bet they would never get rid of spammers.

So let's think what they could do instead of hiring 20% of population on India...

My idea: A link to their ReportSpam page placed just under a Google AdSense ad with an anchor text: Do you think this page is spam and shall not deserve serving Google ads? Click here to report!

if 0,00002% of visitors of these high-ranking sites clicked such link, we would quickly see no Google Ads on these pages.
Someone here said: but that will only move the revenues from google to other ad serving companies.

I disagree. These companies are way smaller and have waaaaay less advertisers. It is also muuuch more difficult and expensive for them to get an additional advertiser than to google. Therefore, they have to prove to their potential customers that their ads are presented on nice and relevant pages only. So they are forced to control quality of their publishers.

On balance, it seems to me that one tiny link under an adsense box of advertiser's page would fix the problem.