Google to kill domain tasting

I really doubt this will have much of an impact on domain tasting at all. At worst, they will make slightly less money because they'll have to use an ad service that won't target ads as well as Google.<p>Domain tasting will be alive and well until ICANN puts a stop to it.

"However some advocates of Domain Tasting say that perhaps no one will be able to serve the niche for some ads and no one will make money on the unserved ads."<p>Who cares if nobody's able to serve the "Poop in a Can(tm)" niche anymore?<p>I wouldn't mind if the "Get a free iPod!" "Press the Fart Button!" "Your computer might have viruses!" etc. "niches" weren't addressed anymore

Unfortunately, the HTTP protocol supports redirects. Nice try, though.

I don't know exactly what the article means when it says Google is going to "stop monetizing" domains, but I hope it means they do something serious like automatically pushing the domain to the very end of any search result unless a special "advanced" search option is given. Who wants a page which isn't likely to exist a week from now to appear in their search results anyways.

Great news.