bose - 3:01 pm on Jun 10, 2005 (gmt 0)

I think that this is the first step down a slippery slope of blurring the lines between content and advertising for google.

I would have thought so too IF those well-blended Adlink URLs were directly leading to a paid click. However, considering that these new links point to a page that clearly states these are Google Ads, I (putting on my advertizer hat now) don't find these to be any different than the original Adlinks format. just my 0.02c...

In my doomsday world I predict an intelliTEXT clone from google next year.

agreed, if that happens, it will be real bad. If G were to release an intelliTEXT clone, there will be yet another spam industry that will crop up resulting in machine generated pages that are nothing but paragraphs and paragraphs of text made up of nothing but high paying keywords.

That's something I would really be concerned about blowing my ad budget on..