Why does adwords allow sites with just SE results?

isn't this making it worst for them when it comes to accuracy?

[walkman]

can any G employee explain this to me? I see how you make money by approving them, but on the other side you're ruining your main product, the accuracy of the search results. Seems very short sighted to me.

These sites are poping out everyhwere and cover almost every keyword. Their only content is the top ten results of Google, Y! or whatever search engine for that particular keyword.

Take the $$ incentive away and they will disappear.

[digitalv]

Perhaps you should notify Google by contacting them directly. They have no way of monitoring every individual customer's content after they're set up, it's up to people like you who notice people abusing the program to notify them.

[hyperkik]

I doubt that many (if any) of those sites are the first AdSense site approved. Under the present system, once one site is approved, the approved webmaster can add AdSense code to any other site he owns - including sites that are unadulterated garbage. Google can block a specific bad site from displaying ads, or cancel an AdSence account for violations of the TOS, so report away.

[walkman]

I would notify them, it's just so many of them. It would be solved if you could only add the adwords ads on the approved site and that's it. Of course no such sites would be approved. Sorry to vent, just my site's name is all over the place...

[skibum]

Ya gotta wonder if Google nukes em' when they find em' or if there are just so many that they do nuke em' but they pop up as fast as they are removed.

OTOH, they might actually convert well since the ad, is basically appearing on a search page.

[daveg]

These sites are the reason I recently opted out of their content network. I complained about one of these sites and although they were interested in any evidence of fraudulent clicks, they didn’t seem interested in addressing the quality of the site.

[howiejs]

The issue is if people are considered about "brand" and "image" - they have no control over the content sites that display them

if you are just looking for sales / clicks - then I feel it can work nicely if you track it (and it give you MUCH broader reach)

[daveg]

I did get clicks, just very little sales. I like the concept of increasing exposure through content providers, but these low quality pseudo-directory/search sites (set up primarily to present paid ads) didn’t convert well for me. What I would really like is a way to opt-out of poor converting sites. There were a few content sites that were doing well, but the poorer sites dominated.

[edit_g]

Sorry to vent, just my site's name is all over the place...

I've got the same problem - and I spent most of last week dealing with it, so I'm ready to vent as well. What I've found is that usually a cease and desist sorts them out - most seem quite eager to stay within the law (I guess otherwise the next step for the trademark owner would be to alert the ad network they're running, so they wish to avoid this happening). This doesn't help with the overall quality issue though...