New Adsense Search Features

I stumbled upon the new Adsense Search features almost by accident. I was in my Adsense account setting up some code for a new blog, when I discovered the changes that the folks at Google had made to their search box features.

I gotta say I like it. Now you can set up a search box, and have the ads open up as part of your page, and lots of them too. I tested this new blog feature on several of my blogs, and although it's too soon to tell if it works in terms of earning money from the blogs, I cannot see how it won't provided my readers decide to enter a search term on the blog.

The only thing I don't like is that it does take away from readers searching my own blog for specific posts, but it' a trade off. For one thing, I would prefer they search for something that will lead them to an ad they can click on which will in turn earn me some money as opposed to searching for something that might lead to another post on my blog. They would still have to react to one of my ads in order for me to make any income from that search. So, on the blogs where I am running the new Adsense search feature, I have removed the other search box that was internal to my site. Too many search boxes, like too many of anything might be confusing. Can't have my readers confused....

If you aren't running the new Adsense for Search box on your site, what's stopping ya?