Archive for May, 2006

Google Tests New Ad Format

Saturday, May 20th, 2006

Fascinating, I know. But it gets even more intense, behold, I have a screenshot!

googlead1  Click here for a larger image.

I know your heart is just quivering with excitement. Google Ads. Wow!

Anyway, there is a little story behind it I suppose. I was refreshing some of my pages as I was messing with the ad coloration and position, and I came across this one and took a screenshot. It only appeared once out of about 25 attempts. I’m not a premium Google publisher, so the only real thing I can think of is that they’re experimenting with a new format adjustment.

Nothing major. Not life-altering news, but I thought it was interesting. It seems like a type of ad that would, as intended, compel the viewer to “change to ads about” whatever topic, as you can see on the right side of the above image. Personally, I prefer this format and think it’d be much more successful in generating clicks.

Fascinating, I know.