Ads by Goooooooooooogle

Yes, that is what appeared alongside my ads

[GrantNZ]

Ads by Goooooooooooogle

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

[oaktown]

If G's intent is branding, they blew it. I must say out front that I detest the extra "0"s and think it detracts from CTs.

That said, maybe G's Phds need to get out more often. Look at the logo's of any major corporation. Branding is useless if it changes the brand. It's counter-intuitive. You'll never see a logo on a car that says "fooooooord" or on a box of tissues that says "kleeeeeeeeenex".

My vote (which of course carries no weight) is to say "OK, we tried our experiment. It looks silly. Most publishers seem to hate it. Let's end the experiment and get back to work making sure that half the ads on page one of the SERPs point to spammy sites with no content and no page rank."

(flame off)

[europeforvisitors]

I agree completely, but I'd like to add that I never even noticed the extra o's until the topic was mentioned here. That "Ads by Google" line is pretty small, and I wonder how often users pay any attention to it?

[lexipixel]

I have found that playing with color combos, especially one where the border is the same as the background, (ie- AquaDoodle, Green Taffy, etc..) are less annoying --- anything that gets rid of the border makes the 'oooooooooooooooo's less "framed" and less obvious.

...just my $0.000000000000002

[clearvision]

I just tried to add a second add unit to a page, one within an article and one on the side border. The ads by goooooooogle ended up right in line with each other...looks really obvious....and really funny! :) NO I am not going to keep it, just thought I would let you know!

[futuresky]

This needs to go. Not only is it spammy but goooooooooooogle with 12 o's redirects to a site which appears to be advertising porn. I've got adsense ads on a forum which caters for people of all ages including many younger people. I certainly don't want them typing goooooooooooogle into their address bar or thinking I'm partnering with a porn site.

[1milehgh80210]

Up to this point I found this thread to be mainly whining about a relatively trivial issue.

But I have to strongly agree with futuresky's post.
Somebody is asleep @ G!?

[colintho]

I sent a "feedback" email about this "confusion & other site, without referring to its content, but commenting on the possible confusion:--

Sent:-- Just thought that I would give some opinion to the “Ads by Goooooogle” feature: The problem that I see is that there is a site called:-- goooooooooooogle.com This may cause some confusion if visitors take note of the extended / extra ooooo’s in Google. My opinion would be to keep to the “Ads by Google” It looks much more professional & there is no room for confusion.

Reply:-- We appreciate your feedback about this test, and encourage you to continue to let us know how we can improve AdSense for you. As AdSense is still a young program, new features are under consideration and your feedback is very helpful.

The opinions expressed here are mixed, so Google should at least be getting some important feedback to consider.

[asp4bunnies]

You know what is the most annoying aspect of this test? The fact that they didn't get our permission first before running it.

I know there are thousands of websites who will jump at the chance to beta test new features for Google, (and yet Google limits which sites they allow testing of new features). And yet here is an incredibly annoying new feature and they force the test on us.

This lack of interaction/communication with partner sites is an extremely odd way of doing business. If Google has decided that it no longer wants its Google brand on its ads, then it should simply put "Advertise with AdWords" on the ad and be done with it.

AdsenseAdviser, can you please give us any feedback at all as to a) whether this is only a temporary thing and b) why Google did it.

[JuniorOptimizer]

I must be the only webmaster who couldn't care less. Let Google experiment.

At some point, one of their experiments will end up making everyone big money. Listening to you folks crying is quite amazing. One guy says it looks "spammy". LOL. Better turn an abuse report in quick.

[Snow]

I had the same opinion as you JuniorOptimizer until I saw Futuresky's post.

This needs to go. Not only is it spammy but goooooooooooogle with 12 o's redirects to a site which appears to be advertising porn. I've got adsense ads on a forum which caters for people of all ages including many younger people. I certainly don't want them typing goooooooooooogle into their address bar or thinking I'm partnering with a porn site.

That is bad, I sincerely hope that google do something about this very soon. Our adsense is also on a forum with members from all age groups.... including kids. :(