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> This isn't a banner ad. This is not a duck, its merely an animal that came from a female duck that happens to live in the water and share a nest with other d
by chollida1 13y ago
> This isn't a banner ad.
This is not a duck, its merely an animal that came from a female duck that happens to live in the water and share a nest with other ducks.
A banner ad, by definition, is a paid add that is an image.
Google is showing banner ads for any definition of the word.
- Dylan16807 13y agoIt walks like a duck but it doesn't quack like a duck. It shows up upon your specific input of the company name. I'm not sure what to call it, but 'advertisement' seems ill-fitting. Now if it showed up when you typed a generic term like 'airline' I would agree it was an ad. But does it?
- lisper 13y agoIt will.
- awj 13y agoSource for that? I'd prefer to hang on to my outrage until it's actually justified.
- lisper 13y agoIt's a prediction. Google's trend has been to get further and further away from their original design and core principles and push harder and harder on the boundaries of ethics and good taste. The end-game for that trend is to end up looking like a 1990's-style portal (which they already pretty much do, except at the moment all the content is still mostly Google properties). I could be wrong. I hope I am. But I'd give you long odds against. And I'm not outraged, just disappointed.
- psbp 13y agoYou're disappointed in your own paranoia?
- bsdetector 13y agoGoogle gets all its revenue from advertising and cost per click was down another 8% in 3rd quarter compared to 2012, continuing a trend since 2011: http://www.hochmanconsultants.com/articles/je-hochman-benchmark.shtml http://www.hochmanconsultants.com/articles/je-hochman-benchm... To grow revenue when your product is selling for less you need to sell more of it, so ads will start appearing everywhere. It's just common sense. What else are they going to do... fire people and start a mass exodus?