Dlocks - 9:23 am on Sep 25, 2008 (gmt 0)

I'm seeing the same. For a lot of keywords I see the estimated minimum bid for first page are 5 times higher then the bid I use for those keywords while the average position for those keywords is 3, 4 or 5.

So it doesn't make sense or in other words, the estimated minimum bid is useless.

I really hope Google will put the active and inactive and minimum bid to activate a keywords back in place (or at least give the option to enable those fields).

With the first page estimated bid it feels like having less control over the keywords.