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.

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I don't think that means what you think it means

[drew_kime]

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?