Google AdSense Updates:
Google AdSense: What's New

4 New AdSense Languages:
Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, and Swedish

Google WebSearch:
The free Google site search now also pays. When people click on ads in your site leve search or web search from your site Google splits the revenue with you.

I am curious to see if this will cause an increase in fraud since many sites which are not in expensive categories may have friends (or enemies) perform expensive fraudulent searches from their sites. This is a rather bold move by Google.

New Ad Format:
The new half banner is a 234x60 horizontal banner, available for text ad units.

More Channels:
You can now create up to 50 active channels for each of AdSense and WebSearch, for a total of 100 channels across your site.

Google AdSense Preview Tool:
The AdSense preview tool is an exciting new tool that's loaded with features. Use it to preview the ads that would appear on any web page, from a number of geographic regions. Test out color combinations. Click through to advertiser sites without generating invalid clicks, and easily add their URLs to your URL filter list.

The AdSense preview tool is a new right click option which will show you the ads that would appear on any given page, even from different geographic locations. More info on the new Google AdSense preview tool.

Yet another PageRank scam.

Show fake PageRank by 301 redirecting your URL to a high ranking site. After the PageRank updates you place a fake site there & then sell the fake PageRank to suckers...buyer beware!!!!!!!!

For those of you who want to display your own custom ad set when Google AdSense ads do not show up you now can.

Links/Google Ad Replacement

Found via Weblog.Cemper.com

Some Automated Bots are off the mark. When I linked into my page about Traffic Power & Cold Call SEO Google decided to reject the ad because I did not state my affiliate status? Clearly this was the action of an automated bot or a person who did not look at the page...I know that sometimes they do review pages because one time on my other site they sent me an email about a page for speaking of the AdSense ads which "were off to the side." Clearly though this is not an affiliate ad...

Campaign: 'Campaign #16,' Ad Group: 'Traffic Power'
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AD TEXT:

Cold Call SEO is Bad
Were you recently cold called by
someone selling SEO services?
SEObook.com/cold-call-seo-facts

Action taken: Suspended - Pending Revision
Issue(s): Identify Affiliate Status

Google making a bigger splash into intranet search

With over 95% of their income comming from internet advertising some people are concerned that they will need to diversify their business model. Meet the new Google enterprise level search technology...

The new system is bigger, with more processing power and memory, allowing a single box to index up to 1.5 million documents and 300 queries per minute, fivefold increases over the earlier model, he said. The boxes cost between $32,000 and $175,000 each, depending on the configuration. ... In 2003, Google enterprise search accounted for $48 million, less than 5 percent of the company's sales, according to a securities filing. That's well behind longtime market player Verity, which racked up $121 million in sales last year. source: ZD Net.