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Google Is Testing Self-Promotion Ads On Search Results (pulseheadlines.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Google Inc. is testing a new feature to allow local businesses, celebrities, and organizations to post self-promoting information and ads on the company's search results. The information would be displayed on a design similar to Google's "mobile cards." This new type of self-promoting campaigns impulsed by Google appears to be an extension of "Google Podium," a beta that started last month with the collaboration of the U.S. presidential candidates. "This is an experimental search feature we are testing, but it is not tied to Google+. We are currently experimenting with presidential candidates and just started with some SMBs for a select pilot period," said a Google representative, as quoted by Modern Readers on Sunday.
just curious
Is this Googles way of getting political influence? http://news.slashdot.org/story...
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
This new type of self-promoting campaigns impulsed by Google appears to be an extension of "Google Podium."
I don't think "impulsed" is a word. And this isn't just grammar pedantry, I really don't know what they think it means in this context. Supported? Designed? Driven? Endorsed? Created?
Nope, no sig
We are currently experimenting with presidential candidates and just started with some SMBs for a select pilot period
What's an SMB?
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
Google's been doing self-promoting ads for years.
Such as "Don't be evil."
Wiktionary says it's an obsolete word meaning to impel or to incite, neither of which achieve cromulence in this case.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
us unchosens have experience in making everything we need out of almost nothing? that's the spirit...
I haven't seen any Super Mario Brothers ad.
Wiktionary says it's the simple past tense and past participle of impulse. Impulse means a sudden urge requiring action.
Rephrasing then... "This new type of self-promoting campaigns that Google felt the urge to action..."
We must be looking at a different Wiktionary.
Good luck escaping The Donald, now!
More celebrity bullshit I would gladly go the rest of my life without seeing.
It is good to hear that Google is experimenting with presidential candidates. I hope they make them available as soon as they develop some. The existing ones are not so good.
What's "wiktionary"?
Is that some dictionary that anybody can edit? Who would use a "dictionary" that any uneducated schmuck could edit? Perhaps the same people who think "10 times less" is grammatically correct.
Dictionary.com (I mean dictionary.reference.com) does not list "impulsed" because it is not a word. It just asks "Did you mean impulse?"
Republicans hate English. They hate it.
Which explains so much of what their kind does.
Wow. U hit harder than Tyson.
That still doesn't make any sense. There's no such verb as "action".
They found ads on Google's search results page? How is this new? Is the author not an English native speaker, or is this one of the newer machine generated content articles. What the actual fuck is this gibberish babbling about?
Also, what is the difference between "self-promoting information" and an advertisement? I thought they were the same thing.
Almost seems like they developed this platform exclusively to give candidates (and, in the future, other "VIPs") yet another channel to spread their propaganda, but then they realized that the the thing was a little bit too transparent (it's called podium for pete's sake!), so someone scribbled "and SMBs" on the pilot project specification.
Who would use a "dictionary" that any uneducated schmuck could edit?
Anyone who wants to know various possible meanings of a word, including obscure or even incorrect ones that more pedantic dictionaries would omit. You should never rely on a single source of information, so having some incorrect entries is a small price to pay for better scope.
Hasn't google been doing this for years, adwords and shopping and stuff? What's new?
That's why they won the Revolutionary War.
Yes, we must.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki...
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
Dictionary.com (I mean dictionary.reference.com) does not list "impulsed" because it is not a word.
Have you looked up "circular definition"?
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
You sound like one of those people who believe anything they read on the Internet.
My background in education instilled a mistrust in wikis. Since they can be edited by anyone, they cannot be used as references in collegiate papers. I would much rather use a reliable source than one where anybody can just make up shit.
Don't know, don't care, all I know is we're getting more ads! WHoooooooooHoooooooooo!!!!!!
Slashdot used to be about tech and code and some fun things IT type folks did, now we're staying up on the latest advertising techniques!
WhoooooooooooHooooooooooo!!!!!
(define) impulsed: "Shoved in your face and pushed down your throad" -- just another way of saying "advertised"
Search : Michael Cumberbatch
Top Result : Michael Cumberbatch owes James Pickelwish 50 bucks!
now James is in for another 42.57
Who says?
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
OED lists it as a word. I have no idea if either of these will work:
http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/...
http://www.oed.com/search?sear...
Err... You need a "library card" for that. Maybe. They're easy to "hack."
Impuled:
Etymology: < impulse n. or < Latin impuls- , participial stem of impellre to impel v.; compare obsolete French impulser.
trans. To give an impulse to; to impel; to instigate. Also intr.
Citation:
"impulse, v.". OED Online. December 2015. Oxford University Press. http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/... (accessed March 07, 2016).
Note the citation says 'impulse' but look at the URL. It hasn't been updated since 1869. According to their little image, it's not a frequently used word. I did have to poke at the formatting. Slashdot ate some of it. It also made me use HTML entities for < characters. Mouse over the URL and you'll see it. If you want, hack an OED account and have all the access you want. (I don't know my library card number, so I am some guy out of Surrey. At least OED thinks I am.)
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
Try OED. It's still a word. Expand the refreshed thread if you can't see my prior response. It's just not in common usage. Which is one of the reasons to use things like Wiktionary. I guess you could argue with OED, if you want? My prior response includes a citation or, better, it gives a couple of hints as to how to access the site.
Hmm...
hertsb0000xxxxx
Change the "x" to a five digit number. If the first couple don't work, try again - bad luck and you've (maybe) picked on that's already in use and they've changed the settings. There are alternative prefixes.
hertsb - is the library identifier.
0000xxxxx is library card number.
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
It's been going pretty well so far. Sometimes I use google search by mistake and see search history from ages ago. I don't use email much, and I use firefox instead of chrome, so despite using android on 3 devices I don't think google is getting very much out of me.
South Park Ridding the World of Ads
Jimmy explains how advertising evolved into "Sponsored Content".
It’s Not a News Story!?
http://www.cnet.com/news/study...
If you don't want to click through, the key point is in the URL.
Nope, no sig
Dictionary.com (I mean dictionary.reference.com) does not list "impulsed" because it is not a word. It just asks "Did you mean impulse?"
Nouns [like 'impulse'] are frequently turned into verbs. It's a natural linguistic phenomenon. Don't be so curmudgeon.