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ADDED: It's just a single search I did. I'm probably not suppose to mention this, but the search was for "email list hosting". The Adwords are on the side, but in a much wider column, and the regular search results are underneath in the same column.
I thought it was all of Google, but it's apparently only for this search.
ADDED MORE: Now seeing it on more searches!
[edited by: hutchins13 at 7:59 pm (utc) on Oct. 16, 2002]
What a concept! :)
I have a Image Captuer to prove it :)
GoogleGuy said it was an 'accident' many people here said it was a beta test...that they claimed was accident, to lure people into complacency.
Well, with this latest 'accident' I'm convinced the first one was a beta test for the new look.
This is the 2nd.
3rd times a charm, right? Just in time for the holidays...goody.
<added> background table color changes with each new search or refresh. Getting ready for the holidays? </added>
[edited by: Big_Balou at 8:06 pm (utc) on Oct. 16, 2002]
... or just right of center!
actually now i see the serps at the bottom of the adwords. weird.
someone definitley messed up.
[edited by: thunderpaste at 8:06 pm (utc) on Oct. 16, 2002]
A good way for them to find out what the click rate on adwords would be if they were at the top instead of on the side. I'm just sayin'.
was just thinking about restarting some paused campaigns :).
How many searches a second? 600? and then those for that what, 20 minutes went to Adwords?
Average cpc earnings =~ .10 cents a click (I'm guessing here)
times 600 clicks (figuring everybody that was actually looking for STUFF clicked an ad first, even if they scrolled down afterwards)
$60.00 per second
times 60 seconds per minute, times perhaps 20 minutes = $72,000 in revenue from one little 'mistake'.
Even if 1/10th of their searches have adwords, that would still give them about $7,000 from that mistake that lasted less than a half an hour.
What an incentive to go 'oops' with the HTML, eh? :)
However, I am curious what they were working on to cause the mistake to happen.
Maybe they were running tests to enter FAST's CSS contest. ;)
CSS testing, hu? That's a GREAT one. Perhaps that is the design they will pitch FAST for the Alchemist contest.
But, why not earn money while they are trying out new things for a contest? I've heard those Search Engine contests can be good for PR...perhaps Google should do one.
Hey, why not a Google Programming contest? :) (tongue firmly in cheek at this point...)
hmmm... not many Yahoo listings left! :)
No pun intended.
