signor_john - 10:13 pm on Nov 30, 2008 (gmt 0)

Mfishy, AdSense was never intended to be a "prestigious network." It was a "populist network" from the beginning. But that doesn't mean Google may not be tightening up the admission standards a bit, especially now that the war for market share has been won.

For that matter, Google may be happy to purge the ranks, too (as it has done with advertisers), by using starvation rather than a guillotine.