IE7 vs Adsense ads

... and there are 1000s are webmasters who are earning money just because of Google AdSense. Do you have any ideas what impact this could make?

 

Microscopic .
It's a tiny industry and all but the biggest players earn less than 5k$ a day (less than a small coffee shop) , and I am pretty sure that 95% of the publishers are not even relying on adsense for income .
And since it's Giant VS Giant wars ,and users love ad-blocking features (remember when Yahoo would popunder everything till everyone got a blocker ?) , I don't think anyone will care .

 

830 milion is 4% of HPs Quarterly sales , distributed among thousands . Oh boy , what an impact it would make if something happens to it !

 

Comparing online advertising with hardware sales doesn't mean much. Everything about the businesses is different. I could say that HP's annual revenue is 4% of the GDP of Switzerland.

We're talking about online advertising here, and Google has an estimated 1/4 of the total online advertising market. Adsense, with $3.3 billion annual sales, in the only advertising sector with real growth, is nothing to scoff at.

Microsoft has lost in related cases, based on anti-trust laws. They settled with Real Player for $750 million. If IE was blocking only Adsense, I think there would be a legitimate complaint there. Who knows.

 

it would definatly make a difference, yes, perhaps not that big, but there are tons and tons of small websites relying on adsense, i have a small website myself, and i think if my ads would be blocked i would just quit right away

 

I can block adsense with IE 7? Wooo Hooo, that alone makes it worth installing!

 

as far as i know,
if ms really blocks any competitors revenue source, they can't include ie7 by default on windows.

and does anyone really think that this is a "bug"? what a coincidence... google openly challenges microsoft on almost all fields, and ms "mistakenly" blocks only revenue source of google.

 

I installed it on both of our office computers as well. Identical computers running the same software and being upgraded from the same version of IE6 with the same security patches etc applied beforehand and guess what? One upgraded IE7 displays google adsense ads and the other does not.

All affected upgraded browsers still show bidvertiser, ypn, and kanoodle etc, just not adsense ad units of any type. I hope we are the freak examples because this really could make for drop in earnings across our own website holdings.

 

Yep our earnings will drop becuase they will not be able to see our and no clicks...that sucks i think google should launch thier own browser G Browse
Saad

 

Searching around the net this doesn't seem to be a big problem yet - other than mentions when it was still in beta. Maybe my home and our work computer are just the odd-balls. But it would be nice to have it display properly for doing work at home!

 

Google should dump a big pile of money on Microsoft table and say 'fix it'

 

Well... Now that Vista has arrived with IE7 as a standard one should expect the IE7 to be out of beta right? I'm still having the "no adsense" problem.

Did anyone come with an idea about how to fix it?