adsense terms of service

ad placement authorization

[brookbend]

Can you put adsense ads in a database application? In order to figure this out you have to qualify if the database is a product for sale, or if it's just a database containing information for sale.

Couldn't get this answer on Google's forum. Nor could I interpret this from Google's TOS.

[LifeinAsia]

The database itself is irrelevant to the issue and has no connection to AdSense.

AdSense ads appear on a site. The site may use a database, or it may not.

A site using the database may show ads, or it may not.

So just to clarify- the issue is whether the SITE conforms to the AdSense ToS, not the database.

[brookbend]

Frankly, I think Google means they don't want adsense ads in a commercial database for sale, where you buy that database like buying
SQL and hey, there's ads in there.

[LifeinAsia]

It's a non-issue- you can't store AdSense ads in your own database.

[brookbend]

My database is not for sale - you subscribe to the data in it.

[ken_b]

Is the idea that you want to serve AdSense ads along with the data served to your subscribers?

For example, if a subscriber to a widget database pulls data for say 3 widgets you serve that AND some AdSense ads?

Why would you need to put AdSense in the data base to do that? Just include it in the code for the page the data gets served on.

Maybe I don't understand the issue.

[LifeinAsia]

Do people have direct access to the data, or do they have to go through your interface? Is the interface on your site or can they run it on their own sites/desktops?

If people are subscribing to it, I'm not sure how they're going to like having ads thrown at them on top of the subscription fees.

[brookbend]

***Do people have direct access to the data, or do they have to go through your interface***
GO THRU MY INTERFACE

***Is the interface on your site or can they run it on their own sites/desktops***
INTERFACE IS ON OUR WEBSITE
NO, THEY CAN NOT DOWNLOAD ANY PART OF THE DATABASE SYSTEM FILES; ONLY REPORTS GENERATED FROM THEIR CUSTOM QUERIES

***If people are subscribing to it, I'm not sure how they're going to like having ads thrown at them on top of the subscription fees***
GOOD POINT -- WE'LL HAVE TO DEVISE IT SUB-THRESHOLD TO CUSTOMER SCREAMING.

[brookbend]

***ken_b Why would you need to put AdSense in the data base to do that? Just include it in the code for the page the data gets served on ***

Adsense is new to me + I'm not the db architect, nor have I even peered into an enterprise database. But I have good imagination! Not all will pay the subscription - so I loose eyeballs. Question is how much am I willing to loose. the db isnt all that simple... the user builds his results incrementally, adding features, deleting.. until the desired product + price appear.. so ads can show at/any step.

[brookbend]

ken_b it's a legal issue re TOS not a technical issue

it's not CAN it be done but MAY it be done

[ken_b]

t's a legal issue re

Then you need to ask a lawyer.

[brookbend]

ken_b Perhaps. Because Google's TOS is too vague. Thanx. Or maybe I show direct ads there.