Google Related Links-new Labs feature

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

 

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

 

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?

 

Interesting thing from Google.. Nice..

 

Are they retarded? Why would anyone do this?

 

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!

 

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/

 

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

 

Agreed, seems to be in googles benefit

 

Such stupid service. AdSense for free?

Agree with you boys

 

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...

 

I am out of this.

 

I think the question would be:

Who likes this new service?

 

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

 

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

 

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.

 

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

 

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

 

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

Comments are welcome

Has anyone tried to cloak with Related Links?