I donno if this information was posted before but I think that ppl can from now on know their quality score with adwords Read More : http://adwords.blogspot.com/2007/02/quality-score-updates.html
LOL, your nick includes the word dream, were you dreaming up till now. It has been out now for around a month or so.
I would hardly call the system transparent. Now if they showed us how we rate on each of the 100s of factors in their algorithm, that would be transparent.
I wonder why google gives me only 2 option (prices) to set as min bid to make my search active. it's either, i'm asked to bid $.50 or $5, on my 50 keywords. Why is that so? why doesn't google ask me to bid $1 or $2 or $3, etc? why only $0.50 and $5? any idea guys?
I think the quality score feature is a bit lame. When I heard about it I thought its was going to be an actual percentage or something really clear, but it doesn't really give you any information that you can't get from looking at your CTR