When you're as big as about.com I guess TOS rules don't apply... http://guitar.about.com/od/guitarlessonsoftware/ I just blogged about it here and going to post on the adsense blog .. see if i can get any reaction
Nice ctach. You are right big fishes don't care about smaller ones. When you are as big as about.com. TOS surely doesn't applies. Seen it some days ago with MSN and google. In recent google update MSN's PR was 2 and next day it just went to 9.
I saw worse things when I visited the page. An adbloc pointing with 'Find out more' & another PopIn Floating Banner similarly pointing! Well, it could be taken as a honest mistake, considering their size. Anyhow, about.com may have an acc manager to deal with and for sure G wont send those dreaded mail to them.
It's not that I think it was deliberate. I just believe the consequences for an independent webmaster would be harsher than for about.com ... but that's to be expected ... still I got a chuckle from it. And poking fun at the big guys is a nice distraction