On a Brighter Note -

[venrooy]

At least it's not the 4th quarter yet. We still have time to work on other venues. And we have plenty of time to see if Google's going to swallow it's pride, and clean up it's own mess. Or will they arrogantly stand by their obviously flawed Algo - Allowing some other company to rise up and take Googles coveted spot (which by the way was Yahoo's coveted spot not too many years ago)

Personally, I wouldn't mind seeing some of Google's competition take advantage of this.

If Google doesn't want the money that we all are so well at making - Too bad for them. Someone will take their place.

[ohwell]

Yes a lot of people, me included never bothered with Yahoo-Overture because we felt and perhaps rightly that Google was the best game in town. Well tommorrow is day 3 and my acct with Yahoo should be ready for my intitial KW I gave them and then I go from there.

One difference today compared to three years back is we all have learned our stuff. Our ads are already built. Google can take our listings but they can't take what's inside our heads. With Yahoo or MS we can just transfer and prob get most of it listed.

Yahoo and MS could have Google's listings duplicated in say 6 months if each of us transfers over what we now have.

Then we just need the traffic. Yahoo needs an adsense prog to generate traffic and with more WMs buying traffic maybe it will become feasible to have some kind of paid search to generate traffic ie adsense. Sounds like MS may already have 1/4 as much traffic which isn't really that bad at this stage. With the new IE7or8 they should get lots more.

I don't know but I sense the train is in the station and I for one am jumping on. I hope its a long, good ride.

ALLLL ABOARD!

[ConfusedWriter]

If I'm thinking correctly (not to burst any bubbles), but without the kind of traffic G was able to provide us, it means that there will be too many advertisers, and too few visitors on SE's like MSN and Yahoo.

Wonder what that would entail...

[Alex_Miles]

As Ohwell says, yes that would be a problem at first, but if Microsoft want to they could use all their spare customers on an Adsense-like program.

I just opened my first Adcenter account today. I'm inpressed. I'm debating whether to manually recreate my Adwords account or to import it via Quicklaunch.

So far my only gripe is the site doesn't like Firefox. Somehow, I will live with that :)

Until yesterday I was under the impression UK citizens couldn't have Adcenter accounts without a specific invite. Well I had no problem joining.

5c minimum bids, import your campaigns from Google.
Heh. Looks like I wasn't the only one knew Google would screw up!

If they are any good at all, I'll be migrating all my clients over. I'd trade the lower traffic for the higher conversion ratio - and the increased security in knowing my clients' livelihoods no longer depend on the latest fancy of some greedy hothoused brat.

[venrooy]

I'd be willing to wager that a large chunk of google's users are also adsense and/or adwords account holders. Before this week, I was doing my share to buy from other adwords advertisers.

So they're not only loosing adwords account holders, but they are also loosing some of their highest converting users.