so little time, so much analysis...

It reminds me of a sketch I saw many years ago on a kids TV show.

Years back, in the UK the BBC used to run continuity announcements between programs trailing what whas on the other channel. There were only two at the time, so it didn't take long. This particular sketch looked into the future and assumed the BBC would have many, many channels and annouced what was on each and every one. This sketch was the running joke of the show, with the occasional cut to the announcer who was still bravely battling through the schedule.

At the end of the show, the last segment of the continuity announcer announced that "Due to the length of the announcements of schedules, the scheduled program is cancelled".

The reference to Google and comparison is that by the time we've analysed all these new channels, there would have been several of the increasingly regular "Updates" and adsense won't work the same way so we have to start analysing all over again. :)

Seriously though, I imagine the ability to track channels in this way will be of use to some.

It bings also an other question:

The allowence to create the AdSense code by a script.

Just right now, I have a text with

120x90=
original copied code
120x90=END

300x250=
original copied code
300x250=END

and so on.

My SSI is called with &120x90 and looks up the code in the text for 120x90

Now with the new possibilities, I would like to have an Adchannel like

Google referer

In this case, I would not like to make nearly 100 new additional codes

120x90=
original copied code
google_ad_channel ="123456789PLUSCHANNEL"
120x90=END

300x250=
original copied code
google_ad_channel ="213456789PLUSCHANNEL"
300x250=END

My script could now replace "PLUSCHANNEL"
by "" when the referer is not Google
or "+777666444" when the referer is Google.

Now this would be against TOS, but with all the new possibilities, it's extem difficult to use all the features coding them by copy and paste.