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Originally Posted by mike
Well, yeah, but if you're Google, isn't that noise you refer to something like 'cha-ching'?
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Yup.
There is a balance between cutting off their 'cha-ching' and making search users happier.
Kinda like raising prices until your bottom-line stops going up. It isn't the gross income, as many calculate.
My big problem isn't with the link farms as much as it is that the AdSense does not match the content very well on many sites, as an exit toward your search resolution is not there, and you have to go back to google and try another keyword set, or try another listing.
I also think they ban, or limit many good content sites that don't ruin their sites just to fit some of the silly algo's.
Upping the base cost of AdSense is an attempt to maximise Googles profits. If people want to bid a penny, then let them never show up. Or, they can show up cheap for a category that no one else is in. Minimums cut out the good content sites in some categories, because they provide only good info, and don't sell something. They can't afford it. Sad.
But you can't be all thing to all people. <sigh>
Maybe someday they will work harder on what Google is all about (besides the money issues).