Anyone seeing this? http://www.adsenseguide.info/forum/new-ad-types-beware-of-design-errors-vt751.html
This would definately be a bad decision if this would be implemented in such a manor that you and i as an webmaster can't choose anymore from the regular formats. If this is an extra format that would be available then it wouldn't be a problem but changing existing formats to that format would be a very bad desicision that will hurt G as well as us webmasters. If we can't have any say in this then i guess Yahoo would pick up a lot of extra webmasters that G will loose. Anybody care for a petition to vote against it if this would be the replacement of the regular formats?
I'm a bit sceptical. Where did he get the ad code from? Google themselves? It might be some publisher that modified the code or some such.
They may be doing a limited test. But the guy who announced it wrote that adsense logging code, so he isn't just a nobody.
Maybe some publishers asked for that format. It have sense. Should be helpfull. I asked myself why G didnt think on separation of ads. Now, with vertical line it could be implemented fine in some cases.. Next update fonts? : )
Well if it is legit, then in some cases it might be quite useful. I doubt that they will force webmaster to use a specific layout though.
That format really affect the layout of sites... many publishers will not use that format when they release it for sure.