stuartmcdonald - 9:49 am on Aug 4, 2004 (gmt 0)

One way Google could address the proliferation of garbage "made for adsense" sites (and site scrapers while we're at it) would be to allow adwords clients to opt-out of some sites in the content programme. The sites that are getting discussed here adnauseum should then see a drying up of adverts (and money) and hopefully they'll shrivel up and vanish.

Unfortunately Google (and Overture) won't let you see who these "quality" (now there's a good one) sites are in their content programs - for good reason - the advertisers wouldn't be too happy to see who some of these members are. I keep using the content programme, because there are some sites I want my adverts to appear on - but there's a hell of a lot I'd prefer to skip over - I can't be alone here.

I use adsense and adwords, and I get a filter with the former but not the latter, make a filter available on both programs. That way Google doesn't have to police anything - it's up to the advertiser - suits me fine.

Simple solution really.