I doubt that seriously! More likely they are calculating it based on past performance and then deducting a high percentage. I was down 25% on Saturday and almost 40% on Sunday! Today seems to be normal. I am hoping that there will be a Class-Action against Google for this? If so, I'm in!
What is interesting when looking at reports is that impressions are just about the same but clicks are way down. There is no way this is right!
Thank you for saying that ! That is exactly the problem !! They are making errors calculating or something like that. I think they are missing some clicks, because they made the reports updated instantly and maybe servers became very busy ?
Did they fire any PhD(s) from the Adsense Report department? This might be the reason for all this shit!
Number of suspected swine flu deaths now: 149 . Maybe some of them were working for adsense ? OR Maybe, althought the whole big number of $$$.$$$.$$$ earnings of google, they feel they can't pay their workers, & google owners want to keep some $.$$$.$$$ for their daily personal spending ? !
I wonder what the long-term effect of this will be in terms of publishers losing faith in Google's ability to perform basic accounting? What other business exists where the business partners have so little visibility into how their compensation is calculated? Can you imagine working with any other company that refused to tell you not only how much you would be paid, but even refused to disclose how your compensation would be determined. Now add on top of that the discomfort that arises when people finally come to emotionally accept that Google's quality control systems are hack-jobs built by college graduates with no real work experience in enterprise-class production environments.
You can't be serious. I don't consider such things as someone stealing my money "small issues." So since you feel that no one is even close to Google, then you should send them a letter and tell them that you'd be honored to donate a part of your daily earnings to them.
It's really amazing that we just accept this nonsense. It's at times like these when we're getting real, hard cash taken from us that we tend to get angry about it. There is zero accountability from Google to the advertiser or the publisher. Totally amazes me!
monopolistic environment, unless Microsoft PubCenter or YPN steps up to compete Adsense in their own game, issues like this will arise. The Google attitude is not in favour of publishers.
Reporting is extremely slow this morning or totally down again. Yesterday my earnings were down 25% week-over-week as they have been every day since Friday last week.