I am a big fan of Google, for all the things that Google stands for, and for all the amount of content that I generate about the company, I really do like them.
They have made significant improvements in many area's of the internet, from advertising to web site analysis, and others that really do make it easier for people to do things, or save money in the longer run. I also like the idea that I can pretty much so find anything that I am interested in on the internet regardless of file type.
The adsense/adwords and analytics programs has done wonders for small publishers to help defray the costs of their web site hosting, and in some cases, the money made from adsense goes a long way in countries where people are living in poverty. I know a lot of small band web sites that make 10 dollars off Google ads, and it helps them, I know independent producers of video, audio and other file types that rely on Google advertising to help defray costs of web hosting who can now no longer use that service.
However, here is where it gets interesting, the Terms of Service for Google adsense specifically states:
"In order to avoid associations with copyright claims, website publishers may not display Google ads on web pages with MP3, Video, News Groups, and Image Results" The full TOS (Terms of Service) can be found filetype:mp3, site:com returns 16 results in total (as of today - 10/11/2006). No pod casts, no NPR, or other material I can get elsewhere from those sites directly, that are given out free for download from sites like slate and others. Even
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