As acquaintances go, Google AdSense isn’t a particularly “auld” one – most people are likely to have more aged underwear. Still, the Inside AdSense blog has taken a moment to remember the technology’s past year, and it was, by all appearances, a rather busy one.
“[W]e revamped the look of our ad formats and introduced ad placements to let you promote your site to potential advertisers,” noted Arlene Lee. “The new Manage Ads feature gave you the ability to make changes to your ad units directly in your account and quickly experiment with optimizations.”
She then continued, “In addition, we launched such features as video units, AdSense for mobile content, and referrals 2.0 to bring in new revenue streams for your site. Still others like the Allowed Sites list and the recently announced Ad Review Center were inspired by your requests for more control over your ads and your account.”
And that wraps up some of the most disparate changes, since most of the remainders can be lumped under the heading “languages.” Yet, as Google translated various services and sites into Hebrew, Arabic, and Russian, these upgrades can hardly be considered all of a kind, either.
Google AdSense hasn’t gotten off to too quick of a start in 2008 – unlike Facebook, it has yet to unveil any fresh differences. Still, we think we can allow the AdSense team a few days off, and as always, will be ready to report the results of what they do in the future.
