Google Related Links-new Labs feature

[younghistorians]

http://www.google.com/relatedlinks/

[m0rtal]

Interesting I just wonder who's links will show up in these link units and why.

[Phynder]

Hmmmm.... I just took a look. AdSense without the money? Not sure how many people are going to fall for this one. Anyone put it on their site?

[Sarangan]

Interesting thing from Google.. Nice..

[BamaStangGuy]

Are they retarded? Why would anyone do this?

[liquidboy]

completely crap, google are trying to win more market share of webspace without paying for it!

Any webmaster that wants to do this needs there head checked!

[tstaut]

Maybe I need a headcheck but since this site is new w/ no traffic anyway, I put it on there (VERY) temporarily so you can see how it works... in the setup, looks like you can exclude the adsense part and just show news/searches.

http://dealsnitch.com/

[m0rtal]

I don't understand why anyone would want this unless they paid for it especially since it says "powered by google".

[carmen]

Agreed, seems to be in googles benefit

[Calivad]

Such stupid service. AdSense for free?

Agree with you boys

[Teddyd]

I agree. This product is really bad:

- it will compete with my Adsense ads
- it will compete with the RSS news that I want to show
- it will directly compete with competing sites that are equivalent to mine (and I assume the most displayed sites will probably be those with a higher PR)
- I certainly do not want to provide a "related searches" field. It presents too many risks my users will jump to another site/topic. I want them to stay on MY site to click on MY adsense ads. Keeping the number of outside link to a reasonable limit is an art btw...

Sorry, Google, but this one is not going to be a g star product ;-)

[Calivad]

Originally Posted by Teddyd

I agree. This product is really bad:

- it will compete with my Adsense ads
- it will compete with the RSS news that I want to show
- it will directly compete with competing sites that are equivalent to mine (and I assume the most displayed sites will probably be those with a higher PR)
- I certainly do not want to provide a "related searches" field. It presents too many risks my users will jump to another site/topic. I want them to stay on MY site to click on MY adsense ads. Keeping the number of outside link to a reasonable limit is an art btw...

Sorry, Google, but this one is not going to be a g star product ;-)

Could not be better explained. I want visitors in my site, I don't want them to leave for free. Google is surprising...

[kila]

I am out of this.

[Calivad]

I think the question would be:

Who likes this new service?

[Mong]

haha
It is funny most people are not willing to put adsense with money and now google is willing to pay no money for google

[GULLIVER]

I can't see any sense in this service~~~

[mad4]

If this could be used server side then there may be some SEO benefit in the same way as including an RSS news feed.

Having it as a JS makes little sense really and takes up space that could be used for othre things.

[onedollar]

It is unlikely that google will start a product similar to adsense without any monetization benefit. they must have something up their sleeves.
but this is more likely to be used for theming websites by google, IMHO

[jimkarter]

But google has started it so it might have something hidden behind it. May be we will be able to see it later.

[softplus]

I put together a quick series of test sites comparing Adsense to Related Links on my blog: http://seside.net/google/2006/04/04/...ncy_usefulness

Comments are welcome

Has anyone tried to cloak with Related Links?