Here is a nice blog entry from the Adsense folks on ad placement and design for community sites. Also a with the blog is a link to Section Targeting which I didn't even know existed. The idea targeting section, like the post portion of a forum makes great sense.
If you run a community and use Adsense take the 2 minute read, it's well worth it.
Google has finally create a Site Search that is ad free and allows the site owner to pay for the service rather than having ads.
Furthermore, they allow you to get your search results as XML. Then the site owner can format it however the want it to appear with in there site.
Thanks Google, I am sure I have customer who will want this ability. See there is more to life than server ads.
Check out the Google Blog for Details
This is so cool, yet so simple and so overdue.
