On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 16:04:05 -0400, Sj 2.718281828@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.