This is one of those decisions that you really have to wonder about.
While they punish so called "MFA" sites (Made for adsense) and duplicate content on sites, how does it make sense to now offer a google solution for monetizing names without any real content on the site.
Even if you later tie it into many of your mashup API's and your mini site builder, aren't you really just making a way for people to regurgitate content onto the web in an effort to grab google rankings and profit from adsense by driving traffic through your portals?
So why is it that when others do it, they get their adsense accounts taken away, or the page quality scores reduced so that ads pay less on them?
Will a google approved MFA site convert better and at a higher value than one from another provider?
I think this is another example of Google behaving exactly oposite from the way they're telling others to behave.
As any parent will tell you, "Do as I say, not as I do" is not a workable strategy, it just propetuates the behaviour.
I seriously question this move by google, I think they are not adhering to their "Do no evil" code of conduct here
in the end they'll punish current parking companies, perpetuate adsense arbitrage and add a whole pile of search engine spam to the internet.
Wow... Pot? Kettle? ... someone should review this decision in a big way.
See their official release here:
http://adsense.blogspot.com/2008/12/extending-adsense-for-domains-to-all.html
Google Extends Adsense to All Domain Owners
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