max_mm - 3:04 pm on Feb 18, 2005 (gmt 0)

Would you let the US Postal Service read your mail from your family so that they can insert flyers into the handwritten pages and include ads for Campbells Chicken soup because your mom sends you her favorite chicken soup recipe?

Excellent point!

Come to think of it, they are turning into an ad serving machine.

Think about it, what ever services or tools they offer have one very distinct thing in common "Get as many eye balls on google pages as possible and consequently, more AD impressions and more clicks". Seams like they wont stop at nothing to reach this goal (privacy issues!?).

Think about it:
a) Gmail - billions more ad impressions per day
b) Bad SERPs - a few more billions impressions per day as users have to go to page 3 and 4 now to find what they are looking for.
c) Google search box over millions of web sites – a few billion more impressions
d) Google browser bar with the new content linking - trillion more impressions per day and the list goe's on and on. This goe's way beyond being innovative and raise some serious issues.

Where will it leave us webmasters?..... expect more bad news to come. And use that adsense income you are getting now and diversify...it will be gone soon. Google are getting closer to their required ad impressions targets (with all them questionable innovative new products they are unleashing slowly). I don't think they will need us much soon.

“Do no evil – leave it to google.” LOL