Is Google Instant trying to trick people into clicking on ads?(customerecosystem.com)

4 pointsby joelandren16 lat temu3 comments

Is Google Instant trying to trick people into clicking on ads?

http://customerecosystem.com/2010/09/08/is-google-instant-trying-to-trick-people-into-clicking-on-ads/

3 comments

They changed the background color. Ok. It is still quite obvious to me what is an ad and what isnt. Perhaps the old yellow was too subtle.. some people might not know that is an ad even if they switched back. What if they brought back the blink tag like:

<blink>AD!!!!</blink>

Gibbon16 lat temu

Google made an aesthetic change to the sponsored ads back in July to better match the new look and feel they pushed back in may. Nothing to do with Google instant at all.

What's funny is if people are only noticing this now, then the ads are obviously totally ineffective.

mirkec16 lat temu

Nice point. They really changed the background for ads.