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Google Local Pack Ad Label Feels Even More Subtle
- mochomocha 7y agoGoogle search is reverting little by little to the pre-Google era of search engines being mostly catalogs of sponsored links.
- itsaidpens 7y ago1000% - remember when Google Adwords ads on search were in their own light-green or brown box? Hard to remember. This is so utterly scummy. And what's sad is, no one will actually care.
- conanbatt 7y agoLooks to me that Google is tapping out on growth if they sacrifice so much on product to meet their targets.
- wutbrodo 7y agoContrary to the usual Google hysteria around here, they held the line on disguised ads a lot longer than everyone else; but this is wayy beyond the "deceptive" line, at the level of Promoted tweets with their tiny, grayed-out bottom-corner labels. I remember a pretty robust employee culture of pushing back against even slightly deceptive things (though that was starting to change when I was there); I can't imagine how this change could have gone over without either significant employee restiveness or a dramatic cultural shift since I've been there.