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.

[2oddSox]

Bluepixel, you are in the privileged position that you have one more 'O' than I do. For some time now my sites have returned just 6 'O's. (Half the 'O's', half the displeasure? I doubt it.)

Even with 6 it still looks unprofessional and makes me think that those Google-brains are just like the politicians we have at home. They're all so-called academics - full of theory, but little real-world experience.

[justgowithit]

I think Google should leave artistic impression up to the publisher of the site. Get rid of the "oooooooo"

[adfree]

spekiehl said:
"It may be a little unprofessional for some, but for others, I think it work great. I run a humor site, and my revenue is up significantly since the extra 10 o's where added. I think seeing 'goooooooooooogle' makes my visitors more amused and likely to click the ads. I can see how this creates a less professional look for others though. Maybe if G made a setting for how many o's are displayed, people could experiment to see if it improves their revenue..."

My Google related site is more on the entertaining side of things as well and I don't think I am seing any change in CTR behavior. Nice for that site but I am pretty darn sure I am losing a lot of clicks on my other 20 sites where users might prevent this introoooooduction of a commercial section of the page.

I wish they'd drop that again. Using their SE with AS at every page gives them the exposure they need already.

[georgeek]

I run a humor site, and my revenue is up significantly since the extra 10 o's where added.

I think that just about sums it up right there!

OK Google joke over now let's get back to business....

[GrantNZ]

The better click through rate may just better targeting and/or more advertisers rather than more ooo's stimulating visitors to click.

[limbo]

From the opinion of someone who doesn't use adsense... (yet)

This change is giving me doubts for the sites we were contemplating adding to the adsense program. Now I think we'll wait and see.

When I saw this for the 1st time I thought the site I was visiting had been hacked - or was just fooling around - Not goooooood, not even close!

[crisscross]

Oh no! It's back again, but shorter now: "Ads by Goooooogle". Feel free to modify my complaint and send it to

Dear Google,

RE: Ads by Goooooooogle

Please stop playing with with my site's content without my permission. My staff and I have spent thousands of hours working on our site's pages to give a professional impression and we resent your arrogance in thinking you can conduct a live experiment on our site without our permission.

I also find it incredible that you would implement this program in such a widespread way without communicating any potential benefit of your policy to either publishers or readers.

The implementation of your new policy is unprofessional and the look-and-feel disturbs me, my staff, and my readers. It makes your otherwise useful AdWords program look like a joke. Given the difficulties in finding and maintaining advertising revenue, publishers need Google to implement policies that will enhance the relationship with between advertisers and readers, not devalue them.

Please revert back to the original "Ads by Google" which was simple and easy to understand and caused no complaints. And if you want to do something like this in future, please be so kind as to give us the option to opt out. It's just polite.

Thank you,

A webmaster

[JuniorOptimizer]

Dear Webmaster,

Up Yours,

Googlebot ;)

[digitalv]

I'm seeing this every time now.

[surfer67]

lol, Junior is very perceptive.