Back in the old days (the good old days), Adsense would show 3 different text ads in one of those square ads (300x250, and 336x280). they had 3 rows in the box, with different ads in each.

but all i can get them to show these days is one huge ad taking up the entire box, with a massive button in it. i always think it looks a bit tacky like that. it's a similar story for the 728x60 ads (although i've dumped those now) — i just get one huge text ad spanning the entire thing.

i have tried changing the text size to something smaller, but that doesnt work. i still end up with one ad in the box.
its almost a total waste of time fiddling with the colours and sizes these days, because google seems to ignore them 5 times out of 10.

has anyone figured out a way to "encourage" google to fill each space with multiple ads? like they did in the old days?