Google Doesn’t Love Me Anymore (As a Referral Source)
Darren at ProBlogger has kindly shared a personal response of his to Google AdSense, who coldly broke up with him this month. Well, what happened is they decided that their signup referrals system was only going to be available to people in certain countries from now on (ie not Australia, where Darren lives, or New Zealand, where I live).
I’m used to being treated in a racist manner, and while I was miffed about not being allowed in the AdSense referral club anymore, I didn’t actually have it on my site so I didn’t cry into my pillow or anything.
But Darren is clearly upset, and fair enough. First he read about it on Google’s blog, and then he received one of those impersonal, ‘no-reply’ emails. After all the referrals he sent them for AdSense!
It reminds me - in a very random sense - of that TV show Big Love, about the polygamous Fundamentalists in Utah. Google had all these relationships, but is now casting people aside because it doesn’t need them anymore. That results in hurt and anger. Haven’t you heard of Fatal Attraction, Google?
(Disclaimer: Rich Minx means Google no harm, wishes them all the best and will not touch their pet rabbit.)ÂÂ
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Google has a pet rabbit? And what’s all this about polygamous fundamentalists in Utah? Shouldn’t this post be all about polygamy and rabbits, with a small reference to your attempt to curry sympathy for being dumped by adsense?
January 17th, 2008 at 3:49 pm… Isn’t that what it is about?
January 17th, 2008 at 3:56 pmIt is a good thing you cleared up about that pet rabbit thing. I am sure the geeks at Google headquarters were a bit nervous to lose their rabbits they keep in their office. Sorry to hear about the news about some countries getting the shaft, it is just not really all that fair.
January 18th, 2008 at 6:47 amIt’s almost like Google have said this:
“Oooh, there’s us. AMERICA! F**K YEAH! We’ll give them money!”
“Yeah!”
“Oooh, what about Mexicans? They’re people too! We’ll give them money!”
“Yeah!”
“Oooh, and there’s also those small funny looking people with the good computers who eat Sushi! Google likes computers and Sushi, so we’ll give them money!”
“Yeah!”
“What about Europe?”
“What?!?! France!?!? Oooh no. They don’t like us!”
“Africa?”
“They don’t have computers.”
“Australia?”
“Neither do they.”
“Russia?”
“Aren’t we fighting the cold war?! No!”
“India?”
“They cheat at Cricket. No!”
* May not of actually happened
January 18th, 2008 at 9:04 amHahaha exactly!
I mean, I can kind of understand New Zealand being left off (”Is that a real country?”) but Australia was part of the Coalition of the Willing!
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