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3 unusual facts about AdSense


Click-to-call

Google was later setting up a new beta CTC system, where AdSense users would be able to submit their phone number, and Google would put a call button next to their website link.

Mongabay

Butler says that the traffic brings the site $15,000 to $18,000 a month from AdSense.

Network effect

Google AdSense places ads on many small sites, such as blogs, using Google technology to determine which ads are relevant to which blogs.


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IWeb

In addition to its ability to publish to MobileMe, iWeb integrates with other services, including Facebook, YouTube, Google AdSense and Google Maps.

Mass surveillance

Through programs like Google's AdSense, OpenSocial and their increasing pool of so-called "web gadgets", "social gadgets" and other Google-hosted services many web sites on the Internet are effectively feeding user information about sites visited by the users, and now also their social connections, to Google.


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