europeforvisitors - 10:07 pm on Jan 31, 2007 (gmt 0)

There are many ways to interpret that. They could've increased partnership by 600%, leaving less money for the partners, though the budget increased.

There's no need to speculate. Distribution partners got $60 million, and AdSense partners got $916 million. The numbers are in the press release:

[investor.google.com...]

Caveat: The numbers don't reveal what percentage is paid to any individual AdSense publisher. The specifics of who gets what are privileged information that Google isn't likely to share with the public (including its competitors).