I think this is pretty cool considering the number of times I’ve accidentally clicked an AdSense ad during fast web browsing. Smaller clickable ad area is a good thing.

Through years of computer usage I’ve formed this habit of clicking in advance of object appearance on the screen. Back in the days of my 100Mhz Pentium with 8MB RAM, the system would take so long to do things that it got to the point where I was clicking on the Start menu, going to Shutdown, then clicking Reboot even before the Start Menu had time to come up. These days I find myself still doing the same thing but now in IE, when loading web pages and sometimes, I end up clicking a stupid Ad. Come to think of it though, with the speed of the PC and the efficiency of the OS and the apps, I don’t seem to notice myself having to click ahead anymore.

Maybe it’s a sign that computers for me have breached that point of price and performance where no matter what I buy above $500 will do me just fine. Well, okay, as long as it has two cores… What does any of this have to do with Google decreasing the size of the AdSense area? Absolutely nothing, but it’s the back story to why I appreciate it regardless of what Google’s intentions are.

Tags: Internet