Saturday, July 26, 2008

Google Ad Rules

In my contract with Google Ads I had to agree not to send out advertisements for this blog urging people to click on my advertisement links. But, I believe there was also a section in there where I wasn't supposed to click on my own links either. Here's the thing though -- one of my ads was for Lasik eye surgery, and I really want Lasik. Bit of a catch 22 huh? Obviously they have the rule so that you don't try to run up advertising revenue by yourself, and I'm sure they wouldn't mind me clicking on the link if my interest was "legitimate". Furthermore, I guess my lazy ass could simply google Lasik and get around 10 billion sites that would be happy for me to visit them. Nevertheless, I viewed it as a bit of a market failure.

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