[WikiEN-l] Re: Google ads

[phil hunt]

On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 16:04:05 -0400, Sj <2.718281828 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>To answer a few lingering Google-ad Q's -- if Google thinks it's being gamed
>by clickthroughs from your site, it can shut off your account.  It also retains 
>the ability to freeze your Google-ad account balance if it thinks you
>or your site visitors have been gaming it, iirc.

Indeed it does.

Has anyone contacted Google to see what they think of opt-in 
adverts? I think they might break the AdServe terms of service, in 
that Google might see opt-in as encouraging people to click on the 
ads to make money for Wikipedia, not because people are interested 
in the ads.

However, Wikipedia is quite a high-traffic website, which would 
probably give it a reasonable level of clout in any negotiations 
with Google.

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