Will I violate adsense policy if I put search or custom search box on a empty or blank page? I'm thinking of making my home page blank or no content except a simple logo of the site with a search box (Like in Firefox), and small navigation link somewhere.
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I emailed the forum about this same issue or a similar idea I have. In essence, I planned on putting the adsense search box on a page within my web site. On that same page where the search box appears, I would also offer my daily image (this is actual content) which automatically updates every 24/7 at 2:00AM eastern time, here in America. I then would put on that page a "Make This Your Default Homepage" and configure a script, offering visitors the capability of doing so. So I am in the same boat and wondering if this is possible and doable. Any thoughts, comments, feedback, constructive criticisms would of course be mucho appreciated.
Well, initially, I like BLOOGLE: http://www.bloogle1.com/ and according to the info desertstOrm provided above via AdSense, I cannot see how that violates any of those terms....correct? I do like the Bloogle approach though . . .