A search blog reports that Google is creating a hybrid AdSense/AdWords product that will allow small publishers to place, as in AdSense, a text ad box on their sites. But instead of containing contextual ads, this one lists searches that are popular relative to the site's content. Upon clicking on one of those searches, instead of getting the organic Google search results, the clicker would get a page of AdWords ad links. This opens the doorway to publishers to cash in on the presumably far more lucrative AdWords search placement market. The report comes just as Yahoo is reported to be coming out with an AdSense competitor.
