ddogg - 5:09 pm on Jul 30, 2009 (gmt 0)

This change has nothing to do with landing pages. You can click the quality score details on the UI and Google will show you the 3 main parts of QS and what your score is. Landing page and landing page speed are not the reason for this change. Google just wants you to pay more, simple as that. Your keywords are not all of the sudden less relevant when you have been bidding on them for years and making a profit selling a service that people want. Google just decided they don't want 10 cents a click on these, they want 30. So screw you (that's Google saying that, not me)

And for those that don't bid on proper names and could care less, don't be surprised when you get hit on your keywords some day. Because Google can completely manipulate the prices to whatever they want you to charge, and that's exactly what they do. The days of the honest auction are long over. I think it's time for some regulation, and I hate the government so this is pretty crazy for me to even say that, but Google has WAY too much power.

Microsoft was NEVER this bad, sure they put a few companies out of business here and there but they never turned a dial and wiped out traffic for hundreds of businesses. Google does that all the time, claiming 'quality score adjustments', when it's just 'increase the prices these suckers pay'.

Yes, I'm slightly bitter at the moment.