IAR: Google Backtracks on AdSense Changes

Yesterday Google announced that they were going to add related searches within the Adsense ad boxes. Google anticipated that this would be a good thing for small publishers. But publishers heavily criticized the new feature, threatening to figuratively throw their new search toys out of the online marketing pram.

Google decided to backtrack:

"When we released [the new feature] more broadly, we started receiving feedback we didn't fully anticipate," the e-mail to publishers stated. "Because we want this to work for everyone, we've decided to temporarily disable this feature until we can better address the concerns. We'll re-release this feature shortly with greater flexibility for Web publishers."