europeforvisitors - 10:01 pm on Jul 24, 2005 (gmt 0)

I'd guess that most AdSense publishers are using the program the way it was intended: as a way to monetize existing content.

They've never heard of Webmaster World, and they don't have the time, ability, or desire to crank out template-driven sites or to build AdSense- and search-optimized pages around commercial keywords.

Also, there's nothing new about Web entrepreneurs trying to profit from the latest moneymaking trend. Not so long ago, boilerplate affiliate sites were flooding the Web; today, multimillion-page "user review" sites and scraper sites are cluttering Google and other search engines. Next year it'll be something else.