Google to enter Paid Reviews thru AdSense?

Nah, I don’t believe it. Google is against paid reviews, right? Shoemoney got an emailing that Google is doing a beta test for paid reviews via AdSense.

We’ve witness the crusade against paid reviews by Google in the last couple of months. Why now would it enter into paid reviews itself? Google Search Quality Engineer Matt Cutts explained this before.

Shoemoney thinks the idea might make sense:

Publishers – Google already has a amazingly huge database of publishers.
Advertisers – Nobody has no online advertisers then Google AND now they they have taped into the news, magazine and radio network they have access to tap even more advertisers on the shoulder to pay for reviews of their service.
Blogger – Google already owns the biggest blog network in the world and they seem to already have a relationship with wordpress for easy implementation of Google AdSense on wordpress.com (that would make sense anyway).
Metrics – Between Google toolbar, Adsense, and Pagerank data Google has by far the best metrics to price a site for a review. They already use these metrics for Adwords in selling contextual ads and links.

Commenters on Shoemoney’s blog says this is a monopolistic nature of Google which it has shown recently — killing link selling competitors to AdSense and benefiting from that same market. IMO, this move could either strike at the credibility of Google or totally straighten up how paid reviews should be done and make it completely legit.

A Googler responds to this and denies anything resembling paid reviews: â€œIn terms of a paid review service through AdSense, I certainly havenâ€™t heard of any such product. Iâ€™ve done some searching around the web and found some speculative reports that were the first Iâ€™d heard of this product.â€

Maybe, this is just a flat out rumor.

Abe Olandres

Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

https://www.yugatech.com

7 Comments

Jeffrey says:

17 years ago

Marchgil, you’re correct, Shoemoney is known for linkbaiting. Yuga fell for it?

Shoemoney is just making up stories, don’t ever believe all the posts on that site.
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Blogoloco says:

17 years ago

they obviously want to dominate the cyberworld. the next we know, yugatech.com is owned by google:)
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Blogoloco - Win $250 says:

17 years ago

they obviously want to dominate the cyberworl. they’ve been acquiring different websites here and there. Next thing we know, yugatech.com is owned by google :)
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ambo says:

17 years ago

Google is God? huh
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itot54joni says:

17 years ago

i think if this will happen,all publishers will become lola basyang if you know what i mean. I read some sponsored posts from others site, they were like story telling. :-)
another way to monetize and advertise your blog/site.payout is $10 project wonderful
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jhay says:

17 years ago

Got that right! Then again this is very Machiavellian of Google if it were true.
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marhgil says:

17 years ago

shoemoney is link baiting again. :)
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