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Google, always innovative, is now testing a “Click-to-Call” service as part of their AdWords offering.

Under certain keywords, some people will now see a phone icon alongside AdWords listings (for screenshots, see Greg’s Blog Posts).

The Click-To-Call FAQ explains how this new service works:

When you click the phone icon, you can enter your phone number. Once you click ‘Connect For Free,’ Google calls the number you provided. When you pick up, you hear ringing on the other end as Google connects you to the other party. Then, chat away on our dime.

We won’t share your telephone number with anyone, including the advertiser. When you’re connected with the advertiser, your number is blocked so the advertiser can’t see it. In addition, we’ll delete the number from our servers after a short period of time.

Some of you may remember FindWhat’s (now Miva’s) Pay-Per-Call program, which worked by charging advertisers based on in-bound calls to a 1-800 number. While Google removes some of the friction, by having advertisers call the users, but their system is susceptible to prank-call abuse.

It’ll be interesting to see what Google’s pricing is like (FindWhat used to charge a minimum of $2/call), as well as whether or not they revert to a “you call us” system to prevent abuse.

Originally by Matt Mickiewicz from SitePoint Blogs on November 23, 2005, 2:33pm

Adsense has become very popular lately, people even refer to it as the new “internet gold mine”. And yes, it is true that Adsense is unique and a very interesting way to earn money on the internet with one or more websites. Sadly, as with anything else new and popular, there are always an increasing number of scam artists that are monetising on peoples urge to learn. Together with the popularity of Google Adsense, a whole new breed of scam artists have been born - The Adsense Scammers.

The Adsense Scammers usually use some very intriguing ad copy (marketing text) on their websites, and tries to lure new customers in with screenshots claiming big Adsense income or big increases in Adsense income from a certain date and forward. The truth about most of these screenshots are sadly, that anyone can do such a screenshot - and then alter it in any graphics program like Adobe Photoshop. The image then reflects a very “coloured” truth, and this is possible due to the changes Google has made in its policies to allow publishers to disclose their earnings, but on the same time not to allow publishers to reveal impressions, clicks and ctr .

So what kind of products should you be careful about purchasing ?
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Of all magic in PHP I probably like the __autoload() hook the most. It saves a good deal of tedious script inclusion calls and may drastically speed up your application by saving the parser from doing unnecessary work. Allthough it has been around since the release of PHP5, I haven’t found any convincing applications for it yet. Most of them follow the same scheme: Whenever an undefined class is being instantiated, a little __autoload() function tries to include a PHP file, which has to be named after it’s class:

< ?php
function __autoload($name) {
require_once(’classes/’.$name.’.php’);
}
?>


solution is inflexible and has some drawbacks. The most obvious one is the class name -> filename constraint. Furthermore, it implies that all class files are to be stored in one single folder. That is no option for projects with several hundert classes, naturally ordered in package directories. Overall, these implementations seem not quite mature but rather a proof of concept for __autoload(). This calls for a better solution. Read the rest of this entry »

Adsense Status and Earnings Notifier a cool google desktop extension

As the talk spreads about the new google desktop search. Webmasters and site owners are happy about the one cool plugin around. Well, what will the be happy about? That is obviously related to money and only money. There was a firefox extension for the same purpose, but some how if didnt work properly and people were looking for something more handy. And its in. Its none other but the Google Google Adsense Status plugin created by Software.
If you have not installed the plugin yet, well, I bet you will be happy to use it.

Adsense Status (three line display)
Earnings: $300
Impressions: x,xx,xxx Clicks: xxxxx
CTR : 7.5% eCPM: $5.99

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Adsense Status (one line display)
xxxxx Click(0s) - $300

Download from http://desktop.google.com/plugins/i/adsensestatus.html

Originally from Google Adsense great resources on November 20, 2005, 9:27am