jakem1 Posted October 24, 2013 Share Posted October 24, 2013 Google is testing banner ads on web search results - reneging on a 2005 promise that "there will be no banner ads on the Google homepage or web search results page? Ever." The company confirmed to the Guardian that it is testing a system with about 30 advertisers in the US in which it shows banner ads for companies including SouthWest Airlines on pages which include them in web search results. The ads can take over large parts of the screen. Read the rest at http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/oct/24/google-breaks-promise-banner-ads-search-results Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
techbeck Posted October 24, 2013 Share Posted October 24, 2013 Marissa Mayer has not been part of Google for a while. Things change. Who cares. Moving on.... Nogib 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spudtrooper Posted October 24, 2013 Share Posted October 24, 2013 Another reason to use bing / or adblocks.. DJGM 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Method Man Posted October 24, 2013 Share Posted October 24, 2013 Just Google being Google. Its best to just avoid their services anyway since in every case there are (multiple) superior alternatives available. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerowen Posted October 24, 2013 Share Posted October 24, 2013 They used to be one of the good guys. I've been using DuckDuckGo and other search engines a while now, and haven't used GMail's web interface for a while. I like the fact that I got my name @ gmail with no numbers or anything weird in it because I was an early adopter, but some of their policy changes and the goings on with our federal government in recent years have made me consider setting up my own e-mail server just for myself and my immediate family. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
He's Dead Jim Posted October 24, 2013 Share Posted October 24, 2013 Google's changed :( +E.Worm Jimmy 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spenser.d Posted October 24, 2013 Share Posted October 24, 2013 I'm not a fan of google, but are you really going to get mad if, when you search for "southwest airlines," you're presented with an ad containing a bunch of links for Southwest Airlines? You can try to make it look crappy by attaching the word 'ad' to it, but it's kind of exactly what you searched for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian M. Veteran Posted October 24, 2013 Veteran Share Posted October 24, 2013 I swear google are intent on butchering their services one by one. I don't use google search at all. Here's a search page for "Holiday in florida". I see 10 results. 8 of them are ads. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Growled Member Posted October 24, 2013 Member Share Posted October 24, 2013 Google is changing and not for the better. +E.Worm Jimmy 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
techbeck Posted October 24, 2013 Share Posted October 24, 2013 I swear google are intent on butchering their services one by one. I don't use google search at all. Here's a search page for "Holiday in florida". I see 10 results. 8 of them are ads. And I get 7 ads when doing the same search in Bing. Who cares. The ads are not intrusive and do not stear you away from what you are looking for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardcore Til I Die Posted October 24, 2013 Share Posted October 24, 2013 I swear google are intent on butchering their services one by one. I don't use google search at all. Here's a search page for "Holiday in florida". I see 10 results. 8 of them are ads. This is a joke post yes? It's hard to tell with no tone of voice :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+E.Worm Jimmy Subscriber¹ Posted October 24, 2013 Subscriber¹ Share Posted October 24, 2013 as expected ads are not intrusive LOL, the definition of non intrusive is really being streached nowadays! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Method Man Posted October 24, 2013 Share Posted October 24, 2013 as expected LOL, the definition of non intrusive is really being streached nowadays! Its Google, therefore theres nothing wrong with it according to techbeck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astra.Xtreme Posted October 24, 2013 Share Posted October 24, 2013 I did the "holiday in florida" search and I get one ad. Granted I have ABP installed, but it's not difficult to solve the ad problems of Google, Bing, Youtube, etc. Nogib 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
techbeck Posted October 24, 2013 Share Posted October 24, 2013 Its Google, therefore theres nothing wrong with it according to techbeck. Yes, thats exactly what I said. Read, understand, and then post. Shocker here, and not everyone may know what I am about to say. But google is a AD company. Surprising, isnt it? Dont like their ads, no one is forcing anyone to use their services. People like to complain/bitch and moan on what a company does with the FREE services they provide. No one is forcing anyone to use these services. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Method Man Posted October 24, 2013 Share Posted October 24, 2013 Yes, thats exactly what I said. Shocker and and not everyone may know what I am about to say. But google is a AD company. Surprising, isnt it? Dodging the issue that the despicable company you so ardently defend has broken a promise they once made... In case you forgot that was the subject of this thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
techbeck Posted October 24, 2013 Share Posted October 24, 2013 as expected LOL, the definition of non intrusive is really being streached nowadays! If the ads blocked what I was looking for, made me scroll way down to view my results....that would be intrusive. They are not. Nogib 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
techbeck Posted October 24, 2013 Share Posted October 24, 2013 Dodging the issue that the despicable company you so ardently defend has broken a promise they once made... In case you forgot that was the subject of this thread. So Marissa Mayer, no longer with Google, made a comment 8yrs ago. I dont see anywhere where she sid she promises. Besides, 8yrs is a long time and things change. I bet if we nit pick enough, there are things that all companies say at one time and then later do the opposite. I just said i didnt care, period. Just something else for people who have to much time on their hands to bitch about Google. That is all it is. Quite hilarious actually. And what is even more funny, people rag on one company about ads on their search site when anther company has silimar ads on theirs. Astra.Xtreme 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian M. Veteran Posted October 24, 2013 Veteran Share Posted October 24, 2013 If the ads blocked what I was looking for, made me scroll way down to view my results....that would be intrusive. They are not. If I repeat the search on my 11" MacBook Air - I see nothing but ads without scrolling down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
techbeck Posted October 24, 2013 Share Posted October 24, 2013 If I repeat the search on my 11" MacBook Air - I see nothing but ads without scrolling down. Not me. Google or Bing, I dont have to scroll down at all. Even on my extra crappy Dell 13.3 in XPS system with crappy screen resoltion. Nogib 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardcore Til I Die Posted October 24, 2013 Share Posted October 24, 2013 If I repeat the search on my 11" MacBook Air - I see nothing but ads without scrolling down. That's because you're searching for an ad-hot topic. Search for holidays, new car, etc., obviously you're going to get lots of ads.. because companies want to sell you those things. Surely ads are what you're looking for? You can't type in such terms and expect not to see ads, surely? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jakem1 Posted October 24, 2013 Author Share Posted October 24, 2013 Here's Ars Technica's take on it: New banner ads push actual Google results to bottom 12% of the screen Google has started adding banner ads to its search result pages, SearchEngineLand reported Wednesday. And they're not just skinny banner ads abutting the top edge of a page; in at least one case, users are treated to a big honking sponsored box dominating the site. In the case of Southwest Airlines, the banner ads mean only a paltry 12 percent of your browser window is dedicated to the search results you came looking for. Maybe it's not intrusive until the ads take up more than 90% of the screen ;) +E.Worm Jimmy 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
techbeck Posted October 24, 2013 Share Posted October 24, 2013 Maybe it's not intrusive until the ads take up more than 90% of the screen ;) I was talking about the current ads. The banner ads are in testing so cannot really comment since there is no telling if they will roll this out, or how the finished product will look. Either way, I dont care since I block ads to begin with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draconian Guppy Posted October 24, 2013 Share Posted October 24, 2013 I get one or two banner ads, been that way for a while now ? :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Growled Member Posted October 24, 2013 Member Share Posted October 24, 2013 And I get 7 ads when doing the same search in Bing. Who cares. Me for one, and I am a huge Google fan. I don't want ads all over my search pages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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