Remember, if you’re loosing money, Google is also loosing money. If everybody was to experience the same rate of drop as you describe, then Google would have quickly retracted their changes.

Has this countered accidental clicks? I don’t know. Though you are right that the large logo graphic seems overpowering in small units such as 234×60. Perhaps it’s time to rethink a design.

I use a lot of the 234×60 single ads format and the new black graphic is there in your face, and dead center in my page, often overpowering the small ad’s text. When I selected text only ads, that’s what I expected to get – not this big ugly graphic.

The google logo should be an option you can pick in your settings, the same as amazon.com lets you do with their logo – text or graphic. At least give us an option.

I just hope anyone who has seen a dramatic drop in CTR complains. If they lose enough revenue, maybe they will do something about it. Ads that no one clicks on don’t do the publisher or the advertiser any good.

In the mean time, I’ve applied to YPN. If this drop in CTR continues, I’m out of here.

I hope their AD SCRIPT becomes so smart that it actually hides when it is placed in a location which violates the terms and conditions of AD-SENSE. The first thing it should do is, look around and see if there is an image of a sexy girl or man on right,left,top,bottom, then of course the script will look at the content : is it a login page ? is it a registration page? is it a search page ?

Google should have an intelligent adsense script to prevent the misuse of its product. Just by providing bigger LOGOS of “Ads by Google” won’t work!