Well this is true that google is great.The persons leading it and the persons working behind the scene have great marketing as well as intellectual brains. There is a vast difference between the success of adsense and other advertiment programmes.I cannot make out all those but can surely list some of them here. 1)No country boundation limit. Publishers from all over the world are accepted and as well as allowed to be partner in the income of google. 2)Better reaserch and development : In the field of advertisement and providing the users what they want they included froogle,google checkout as well as more things. 3)ADsense treats all people as equal (If you cannot take benefit through it thats your fault not google's)
Adsense treats publishers as <strike-through>partners</strike-through> slaves. Adsense bans, they beats and destroys a lot of helpless souls.
I agree with you brandnewX. Adsense once banned a public traded company (Market cap 25 million dollars), the stock went down 50% the same day adsense announced the ban. We are just couple of ants to google, and shouldn't expect google to treat ants too well. I really hope msft take over yhoo..... Jerry Yang, take the deal don't be too greedy or it might ended up 5 billion instead.