google maps "ads"

Google maps being featured heavily on my travel site

[swa66]

I've a travel site that seems to be targeted heavily by google's own google maps "ad".
Being on the road myself this is the first time I see it's targeted so heavily in the US geo-target, to a point where people might even think I intentionally put that there. (Which for various reason is *bad*, and counterproductive, both for Google and for my site).

It's a form one could filled in with from and to in order to get a google maps to plan a route for you (well I didn't click but it's obvious this is the way it heads.

This "ad" also displays very poorly with javascript turned off (gives just a "get directions" button and 2 input fields

I'd like to have this significantly less for a number of reasons, any experience out here in tuning them down ?

I'll write to adsense support but ... perhaps some of you know what to ask and have an idea odf a success rate with getting rid of it.

Interesting: the ad placement thing doesn't show google's own ads as someting targeting the site, ... so it must be "regular" CPC ?

[MyNewPC]

Why don't you try adding maps.google.com to your Competitive Ad Filter?

I thought Adsense ads wouldn't display at all with JavaScript turned off.

[swa66]

As far as turning javascript on and off: one can easily do that selectively with plugins line NoScript in firefox.

The javascript they use in the pseudo ad is from gmodules.com (not in my allowed list).

It's not a regular ad, it's a html based form taking up the entire banner in the iframe. I'll dump google.com and gmodules.com in the competitive filter and will see if they still show up, interesting exercise (although I doubt it'll work)