Hobbs - 11:22 pm on Mar 15, 2007 (gmt 0)

Yes EFV, those greedy publishers will never be content no matter how open Google becomes and will never stop making up stories because that's their nature, publishers.

Excellent openings Martinibuster,
My personal feeling is that Google is an excellent advertiser's company, and a lousy publisher's partner, publishers are treated like the ex-wife while advertisers are treated like the girlfriend.

Before someone goes on about who pays and another replies with who provides content for the serps and ads.., let's take the latest example which I think is what you are referring to, site targeted ppc, will publishers be able to turn them on or off, will it be through the control panel, will publishers be able to see them in the stats? Probably Google thought it all out already, but FUD is prevailing because we know nothing yet, I mentioned in another thread that if you lookup SmartPricing in the Google AdSense help, you will get their equivalent of a 404! While all of us publishers know it is a serious matter that affects us, AdSense advisor's activity compared to AdWords advisor..many other examples can be made on this. More thought and care towards publishers will go a long way, not information that could reveal trade secrets, but the kind that rallies educated well informed publishers more to Google's side, I feel Google is shyly trying and taking steps, like when the AdSense blog started for example, but quickly it became a dispenser of mostly trivial information, one step forward, two steps back, we have mutual interests with Google and want to believe them, but they need to speak out for this to happen.

[edited by: Hobbs at 11:28 pm (utc) on Mar. 15, 2007]