I thought this was interesting. First off, this isn't a complaint rather an interesting theory. I wasn't sure if this should be in the Adsense section or here, but it's more about Google as a company. Google disabled my Adsense account for a week earlier this month for "invalid clicks". Fortunately, I got the account back...only after them taking 100% of my February earnings, which I find to be complete BS because how can 100% of my February earnings suddenly be invalid when I was making similar amounts for years ($1000+ a month). But what can I do if they don't respond to my emails. Reading tons of blogs and message boards over the internet in the week I was disabled, I started to see that disabling accounts and not paying publishers is ha HUGE trend lately by Google. Unrelated to this, Google's Adsense referral system had a HUGE glitch over the passed 2 weeks which has been felt by webmasters all over the internet. Earnings had dropped by as much as 90% all of a sudden for about 2 weeks. Fortunately, this was fixed 2 days ago and its about back to normal. So for 2 weeks, Google hadn't paid its Adsense referral publishers what they were really earning. A thread about this can be found here: http:// forums . digitalpoint . com/showthread.php?t=763335&page=1 (remove the spaces) So in all, in the passed month or so, Google has been acting pretty shady. Today, I found this article: "Google paid clicks data generate debate" http:// news . yahoo . com/s/ap/20080328/ap_on_hi_te/google_paid_clicks (remove the spaces) Does anyone thing that Google is starting to do what they can to save money in the wake of their revenue starting to decline? It's a pretty huge coincidence that they are acting this shady as they are doing so poorly.
I think all businesses have their ups and downs and google is no exception. I don't think google is worried about saving money.