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Ads by Goooooooooooogle

Yes, that is what appeared alongside my ads

         

GrantNZ

2:42 am on Sep 2, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Ads by Goooooooooooogle

Anyone spotted the above with their ads? Kinda strange I think.

lexipixel

1:50 am on Sep 5, 2004 (gmt 0)

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If it's a branding thing, I wonder why they only went as far as registering the domain with three 0's, (gooogle.com)....

Four O's (goooogle.com) redirects to hitbox.

buckworks

2:32 am on Sep 5, 2004 (gmt 0)

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I don't like it.

crisscross

4:14 am on Sep 5, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Take this oooooooooff. It is unprofessional and childish. It looks like someone has taken over the page. I don't want to spend time explaining it to my users why Google )or is it Goooooogle now?) is goofy and or to tell them that the whacky Goooooooogle is not spyware or an imitation site.

I expect this will result in a distrust of adsense for readers and loss of income for publishers. If Google treats ads like a joke, we can expect the same from end-users.

If you are going to screw with our sites, at least send us a warning email (you've got our address, right?) and give us the option to opt-out.

Come on overture, get your context ad system ready.

nuevojefe

6:25 am on Sep 5, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Just a thought but perhaps it's that 1) google hopes that people will like the quality of the sites they are taken to through AdSense (AdWords). Thus, 2) They hope that they remember who helped them get to those sites; so 3) All those stupid O's are something that stands out and is memorable. Perhaps memorable enough to get them to start going straight to google for similar shopping/searching.

blue_eagle

7:26 am on Sep 5, 2004 (gmt 0)

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It could have been something like Sponsors by Google which makes more sense and which looks better if the purpose is to point that those links are advertisers' links.

georgeek

8:05 am on Sep 5, 2004 (gmt 0)

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I too have registered my dislike for the new and moronic Ads by Goooooooooooogle. It may fit in fine on some sites but on all of mine which are of a professional nature this new scrawl looks pathetic.

Please give us the option to revert to the original if you are listening Google.

claus

9:03 am on Sep 5, 2004 (gmt 0)

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FWIW, my CTR went down by 2/3 at first, then down by another 50% and then away. Yes, zero clicks. None at all for the past two days.

Traffic is perfectly normal, and SERPS are too, of course.

NeedScripts

9:21 am on Sep 5, 2004 (gmt 0)

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CTR way down, more people seems to be clicking on "OOOOOOO"'s than ads!

Looks like this is another way google found to milk publishers.

crisscross

10:49 am on Sep 5, 2004 (gmt 0)

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This should be a topic on the WW front page...

digitalv

3:52 pm on Sep 5, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Finally saw this on my site today - I'm in the club. Yay.
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