justageek - 5:44 pm on Aug 27, 2003 (gmt 0)

Glad you're not in lurker mode now also ;-)

Perhaps we are looking at it from a different point of view. I guess I'm thinking that if I'm an ad network and I make this available to my current customers as default and they are indeed making more money with this versus other ads in my network then where is my real value to anyone any more?

I don't have my own contextual product so I can't make money there.

I'm serving less and less of traditional ads so I'm making less money there.

I can still make money from the folks who still use me but if they realize they are serving mostly adsense ads then why would they stay with me in the long run if they can go to Google directly so I'll lose money there.

As an interim solution it might work. Long term I see it as the death of other networks.