No, the Offers team will have a marketing budget and bid through adwords just like everyone else. Google has promoted their own products on their own sites out

No, the Offers team will have a marketing budget and bid through adwords just like everyone else. Google has promoted their own products on their own sites outside the ad system in the past, but they got a bunch of greif for it. There is a Chrome ad on the homepage today that targets old IE browsers, but that is the only exception I am aware of.