Adsense Blender Blown

As I thought, Google didn’t like John Chow’s efforts at blending his Google adsesnse ads. He recieved an email today asking him to change the way he presents his google links within 72 hours.

John is a largish client of adsense, doing 4 or 5 figures a month I guess. It makes me wonder what would happen if a smaller client, say doing three figures a month, did the same thing. Would they get 72 hours to fix the error of their ways or would they be given the boot without a second chance ?

The other issue to ponder is did Google notice this by spidering the site, or was it all the publicity the site got with his recent digg-a-thon ?