Web_speed - 5:17 pm on Dec 4, 2008 (gmt 0)

If they did affiliate programmes like web speed says then they'd loose loads of customers who genuinely believe that google offers impartial advice

Not too sure. How would Google own affiliate links on the right hand side along-with some adwords ads will make any difference to web users...as far as Joe surfer is concerned these are ads and these are ads. I don't see a problem there. If Joe surfer is happy clicking AdWords ads...he will do just the same on affiliate ads/links. Same old thing.

They will loose loads of customers who genuinely believe that google offers impartial advice

Are these the same customers Google lost when they first introduced adwords/adsense and cluttered the web with "Buy dead dog on ebay". Or maybe you are talking about them customers that have to shift through pages upon pages of MFA spam pages every day. Or maybe we are talking about them customers that are having to increase their browser font to maximum just so they can find that little bit of information they were looking for under them 3 or 4 AdSense panels which are plastered all over the page they are currently reading.

Bookmark this thread...you may want to refer back to it in the very near future.

[edited by: Web_speed at 5:29 pm (utc) on Dec. 4, 2008]