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Alright. I just read that MS is launching an AdSense killer, and while I doubt that their is going to be better, I'm gonna consider switching if their stuff looks like AdSense but without the stupid "Ads by" text.
Don't you hate it too?
It doesn't have any negative effect on my webpage that I've been able to tell when comparing stats before they introduced it and after they introduced it.
It doesn't "offend" me design-wise, and although I get regular comments on my website(s) from visitors, not one has mentioned any extra o's.
I don't think it's a big deal at all IMO.
This topic was just recently beaten to death:
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There's whole gaggle about goooooooogle:
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they could add another 0 if they want to ;) (to the checks heh)
Ann
At least it would be great to "blend" this "Ads by G([o]+)ogle" into the background too, such as #666666 instead of #000000 on a white background. Or #AAAAAA.
He still won't run.
(Don't get the point about the horse either but hey, it is the middle of the night here)
This topic is long in the tooth.
Also... I came to think of something. It's possible to decrease the height of an AdSense iframe to less than for example 90px (talking about a leatherboard), thus "hiding" the "Ads by" text. I assume that this isn't allowed, but why is it possible ('cause it is!)?
I just looked at your blog and see you have blended the Google ads into the top of your blog very well indeed. If you could just get that darn "Ads by Google" line out of there maybe you could get every visitor to you blog to click on the ad thinking it was just another blog post! :-)
I'm sure your advertiser wouldn't appreciate that.
Seriously, that text is really ugly. At least it should be possible to blend it.
(BTW... nobody with half a brain would mistake those for blog entries...)
I don't get that expression. Is it good or bad? I assume bad. Bad in what way?
Well, if you beat a live horse it tends to run faster. If you beat a dead horse, you can just beat and beat and it changes nothing, the horse is still dead, and we've beat and beat this topic and we still have Gooooooogle.
It appears to do something for Google AdSense and Google doesn't seem interested in changing it as we've mentioned it so many times that if they cared about our opinions they would've gotten rid of it they would've done it long ago.
Therefore, I would suspect it's a dead topic in Google's mind and it won't change which is why I equated it to beating a dead horse, which doesn't make the dead horse move.
guess only important people get it..
Perhaps that's how you tell a premium from just run of the mill publisher, if they have Goooooooogle or not.
If I ever get in the position of Google or MS, I will force my own sick ideas upon everyone.
Kimmo, why don't you focus on some of the positives instead? AdSense is a great system and there are still scads of opportunities for building successful websites and making good money online, if you're smart, creative and hard-working.
This simply annoys me, so I had to ask for your opinions and simply talk about it. What better place is there to talk about this? Google doesn't listen to me.
You already are!
Hehe, just kiddin;-)
