Linking to Adsense for search

not allowed, right?

[Cakkie]

A while ago, I came up with the idea to integrate a new tag in a custom written forum. The tag would be a google tag, and resulting in a link to a google serp using the keywords specified in the tag

[google]widget[/google] would result in a link to [google.com...]

Now instead of linking to google.com, I was thinking of linking to my adsense result page: [google.com...]

Would this violate the TOS? The TOS states that "Except for related Google queries" all search queries have to be fully human generated. What exactly do they mean with "Except for related Google queries"? If someone is asking for more information on widget1, would linking to the adsense result page of a search for widget1 be considdered a related google query, or do they mean that I have to actually use the normal google? (wouldn't make sense though in the adsense tos)

I know justf*ckinggoogleit is doing a similar thing, where you can add a?q section to the url, resulting in the user beeing show the usual message, but getting redirected to adsense serp for those keywords.

[OptiRex]

Why do you not just include the Google search box which they provide for free?

Or am I missing something?

[Cakkie]

I have a Google search box set up at the search page of the forum software, which is only used once every while. (users prefer to use the built-in search to search the forum, which delivers far better results)

Say you have following situation:

A users come to my forum and starts a thread asking if anyone knows of a good online widgetstore. Am I at that point allowed to provide the user a direct link to my adsense result page for the query "online widgetstores"? (http://www.google.com/custom?q=online+widgetstore&client=pub-MY-PUB-ID-GOES-HERE..... )

If I have to direct hem to my search page, where he needs to enter the query himeself, he would probably not take the effort to do so. (expecially the lazy users). The link he gets, will have the exact same effect as if he was to do all this, only now all he has to do is just 1 click.

Would that direct link to the adsense result page be considdered a "related Google query"?

The part about the extra forum tag would mearly be an implementation of the above, so that I wouldn't have to insert the url myself, but rather only the keywords to search for. This would then probably result in other users also using that functionallity as wel, resulting in all links with my pub-id in it.

[david_uk]

If you want to show ads on the search results page, then that's now allowed. Have your own site search and show adsense on the results page is what I'd do.