Telling your CTR is NOT against TOS

[shafaki]

...gives us an exceptional clickthrough rate of 10 percent

[google.com...]

No one freak away from mentioning his CTR any more guys.

[edited by: Jenstar at 5:51 pm (utc) on Sep. 1, 2005]
[edit reason] Linked directly to case study [/edit]

[Rodney]

how do you know this was not a special case (since it was obviously for a google interview)?

[shafaki]

I simply don't know.

[europeforvisitors]

It obviously is a special case since it was posted by AdSense Publisher Support.

[Jenstar]

I agree with efv, this is a special case, and you can often see stats in the AdSense case studies that publishers are not normally allowed to reveal. Right now, the only specifics are can give without breaking the terms is your check amount.

[ronburk]

I saw a police car going 50mph in a 30mph zone yesterday. Speeding is NOT against the LAW!

[shafaki]

I saw a police car going 50mph in a 30mph zone yesterday. Speeding is NOT against the LAW!

Police are meant to be for law inforcement only and (at least in theory) they should get punished if they break it, as for Google ... Google is the LAW itself.

(For those who have not yet got it: Police do NOT put the law, but Google does.)

[ann]

Yep, it 'tis against the TOS

Ann