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Adwords ads now flagged with ad?

by squadron
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I've noticed for several months that on my iPad Adwords ads are flagged with a nice little ad banner. Tonight I noticed the same thing on my desktop.

Has anyone else noticed this? I am in Australia using Firefox while logged in to Gmail.

#ads #adwords #flagged
  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    I see the same thing. It only took Google 15 years to get around to making ads obvious in the SERPs.
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    • Profile picture of the author squadron
      Originally Posted by yukon View Post

      I see the same thing. It only took Google 15 years to get around to making ads obvious in the SERPs.
      I suspect it's just an experiment. When they see their Adwords revenue drop by over 20%, I think they will roll it back it very quickly. Maybe it's the result of some court case somewhere?

      It's amazing the % of people who don't know the results up the top or right sidebar are paid ads. Depending on your monitor, sometimes you don't even see that very faint yellow background.
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  • Profile picture of the author patadeperro
    I have seen them in some research and some countries IPs, not in all, I am sure they are testing the response, but they have not rolled out to all the searches.
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  • Profile picture of the author wbakhos
    Im in AU and I can't see them... using Chrome.

    Google always experiments.. i've seen different colours links for URLS come for a few hours and then go.. good way to test a billion impressions!
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  • Profile picture of the author RandySwanston
    Sometimes it is appearing and sometimes not, so may be it is in testing phase.
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  • Profile picture of the author paulgl
    Originally Posted by squadron View Post

    I've noticed for several months that on my iPad Adwords ads are flagged with a nice little ad banner. Tonight I noticed the same thing on my desktop.

    Has anyone else noticed this? I am in Australia using Firefox while logged in to Gmail.
    Hmmmmm. I guess your sig is a joke then.

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    • Profile picture of the author nab403
      They are appearing for me too, right when I was about to start a new adwords campaign. I guess I'll have to rethink that.
      I'm in the USA.
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      • Profile picture of the author squadron
        Originally Posted by nab403 View Post

        They are appearing for me too, right when I was about to start a new adwords campaign. I guess I'll have to rethink that.
        I'm in the USA.
        The ads didn't show for me in Chrome, just Firefox. And now they have turned off again
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  • Profile picture of the author pierdkk
    I also noticed that 2 days ago and thought it is a bad idea. Lots of people don't know that the top and left results might be ads. Hope that they will not go for it in the future
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  • Profile picture of the author fahadzahid
    I Think it is quite smart move by Google in order to differentiate between paid and organic search! It would definitely help end user to find more relevant search results!
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  • Profile picture of the author ankushkohli
    Yes, I also noticed it. It’s nice update by Google. It easily help to noticed that which are ads or paid results and which are organic results in SERP's.
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