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Google Is Testing Self-Promotion Ads On Search Results (pulseheadlines.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the promotions-for-popular-people dept.

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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  1. I don't think that means what you think it means by drew_kime · · Score: 3, Informative

    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?

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  2. Re:That oughta hold the little SMBs by xxxJonBoyxxx · · Score: 4, Funny

    Super Mario Brother. Before political correctness they would have said, "trying it on a few Goombas" but today people will say "SMBs" instead.

  3. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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.

  4. new? by Mirar · · Score: 2

    Hasn't google been doing this for years, adwords and shopping and stuff? What's new?