Google Testing Banner Ads On Select Search Results

Posted by timothy on Thursday October 24, 2013 @05:32AM from the you-must-have-enough-advertisees dept.

cagraham writes "Google promised in 2005 to never "ever" put banner ads on their search results, but that appears to be changing. The company confirmed to SearchEngineLand that it is running a "small experiment" involving large-scale banners on searches for Southwest Airlines, Virgin Atlantic, and Crate&Barrel, among others. The ads are being shown in less than 5% of searches, and only in the US, for now. Interestingly enough, the Google exec who wrote the no banner ads promise was Marissa Mayer, now CEO of Yahoo."

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Do No Evil by mfh · 2013-10-24 05:35 · Score: 2, Funny

It's not evil to have a banner ad. Right, shareholders?

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In other words: by grub · 2013-10-24 05:46 · Score: 5, Funny

"Dear Human Products,

Google will be placing large, targeted ads across your search results.
Thank you for your personal information.

Do Know Evil,
Google

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