Google To Release AdWords API

An anonymous reader writes "Good Morning Silicon Valley reports that Google is planning to release an API for AdWords. Apparently, the company secretly brought 1,800 marketing and sales people to San Francisco last week to debrief them on the initiative."

Comments

Great, more affiliate spam..

[Sadiq]

Don't they already have enough affiliate spam in adwords?

Must they allow people to automate it?

I sometimes wonder...

About Time?

[hsmith]

Adwords has always seemed a bit rudimentary in the way it has worked in looked. The jscript page include to the way it is displayed. Even nicely layed out sites that rely on it, it has always felt out of place. Why not sooner?

Re:About Time?

[chris09876]

There are still issues though - the API is only for advertisers (not for publishers). ...it's always bothered me how they don't provide an ssl version of the javascript code. If you want to use their ads on an ssl'd page, your users get a popup message telling them that not all elements are secured.

Re:AdWords are on the decline?

[ceeam]

... something to add. Immediately after posting the above tirade I went to google and searched for my name just for kicks. Imagine this:

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New & used Cyril. aff
Check out the deals now!
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Thank you very much, Google! : )

If you ask me

[value_added]

I think Google and the folks that showed up stand to do well.

Only one in six users of internet search engines can tell the difference between unbiased search results and paid advertisements, a new survey finds.

Article here.

My predictions

[tod_miller]

The API will be aimed at reducing ad-sense-fraud. Giving people the option to opt-out of bad performing sites. In addition the webmasters will be able to maximise thier effectiveness in good advertising, to climb up the earnings ranks quicker.

Google is clever!