Google Quietly Closes AdSense API to Small Sites 56
NewsCloud writes "Google has raised the required minimum traffic limit for publishers who wish to use its AdSense API to 100,000 page views per day. The AdSense API was introduced in March as a way for sites with user generated content to share advertising revenue with their members. Says Google, "This policy change will probably result in fewer developers going live and give us a chance to enhance our support resources and processes to more easily support a greater number of developers in the future...we hope to be able to lower it in the future as we become more efficient at supporting our developers!" Meanwhile, some publishers report waiting a month for their API usage to be approved. I take Google at its word for now but worry that small developers could be increasingly squeezed out of the mashup space if this were to become a trend."
Slashdot quietly supports blogspam (Score:4, Informative)
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idealog = personal spamblog, newscloud = spam blog, whom Google undoubtedly denied AdSense API access
Re:Not ready for prime time? (Score:4, Informative)
Basically its revenue sharing where you can share a % of your profit with your users.
Thats all they have limited.
Re:Slashdot quietly supports blogspam (Score:4, Informative)
That it's adsense make me wonder if this isn't really a measure designed to control or attack people abusing the API to propagate things like blogspam and link farms. It doesn't make sense to me that Google wouldn't really be able to accommodate smaller publishers since I'd guess that the majority of API resource usage is concentrated among the largest qualifying publishers.
Re:Not ready for prime time? (Score:4, Informative)
You are aware that wasn't "Google" funded. It was the personal funds of the founders. The jets as well. Or should all CEO's limit themselves from spending their personal bank roll?
Anonymous Coward = Mark Zuckerberg? (Score:3, Informative)
Google AdSense has always paid regularly... (Score:3, Informative)