Just reading this and it seems that not only are Google treating adsense publishers with contempt, but they are also treating adword customers with equal contempt in pursuing more revenue. It cannot make business sense for the long term to deny legitimate people/customers access to their services, although it does seem that Google are wanting to become loathed by the next generation. If Google ban people from their services they should offer a link in such emails to a place where people could uninstall all Google spyware so that Google held no details whatsover on people they do not want using their service (apart from when it makes Google cash). Google has truly come full circle from being the upstart wannabe to the corporate enigma violating privacy and copywrite of people that made it what it is today. (I am not anti-google, just there has been an increase in the backlash towards Google and it seems each day there are increasing people being discarded by Google while they permit blatant TOS violators to continue using services).
Google is still quite trustworthy for most of us. To be frank, they are screwing up more in 2006, than they have ever in the last 7-8 years of them. Google needs to deal with it, and fast, otherwise, i will create a site telling people to boycott google. After all, if google are that bad, why do we use them? There are more than one service than google. Robert
I seriously doubt no TOS was broken... why would they stop sites from paying them money? Now.. if its a case of favoritism for sites that pay them more. That I can see happening.
That is exactly what happened -- favortism. They accept some BIG advertisers who they know violate their TOS but ban small advertisers. There are hundreds of examples -- just do a search on the mnay banned products/services that -- you'll see PAID adword advertisers is almost every category. Of course my complaint letter of a week ago was unanswered and no action taken.