Theory on Goooooooooogle

Catch impersonators?

[androidtech]

If this theory was posited on the "Ads by Gooooooogle" thread, then my apologies in advance. It's just too long for me to read the entire thing to find out if someone else was wondering this.

Suppose Google wanted to catch people that were displaying ads that weren't AdSense/AdWords ads, but claiming that they were? Perhaps the impostors wanted to add an air of legitimacy to their non-Google ads? Or maybe they were rejected by the AdSense program and are trying to make another ad program look more prestigious?

By changing the "Ads by Google" line to "Ads by Gooooogle". They could search their own indices to rapidly find people that were using the "Ads by Google" phrase and make them stop. They could have done this before, and then cross-referenced the pages with their "approved" AdSense sites/pages, but that would have been a monumental job. This makes it a lot easier.

Just a thought.

Thanks.

[drbrain]

They can do that already. The JS is not interpreted by GoogleBot.

[skipfactor]

Perhaps they found the over-optimization penalty on anchor text was hurting their ranking for ads [google.com]. ;)

[Jenstar]

That is an interesting idea. Many of the other contextual advertisers make their ad units look like AdSense, complete with the "Ads by _____". With the current Gooooooooogle, it definitely makes one notice that they are Google ads, and not a competitor.

[mike schmitz]

I think they should have used a Google logo if they want to draw attention to their brand. I think the oooooo's are a bad fix to a good idea.

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[helleborine]

mike, great minds think alike and I too thought a small, discrete Google logo would be a nice OPTION.

[mbatta]

much like the logo provided for the google search option.

[venuma]

I have not seen multiple Ad units serverd on "Ads by Google" Page.

Whereas "Ads by Goooooooooogle" Servers multiple ads, if coded.

[anallawalla]

I'd love to know what Google's legal counsel had to say about this idea. They are diluting their trademark. Someone could register domains with the extra Os and it would get harder for Google to challenge them.