"View ads about" = new feature?

[farmboy]

I've been away from WW for a few days so my apologies if this is something that has been discussed recently.

Tonight I saw an unusual (at least for me) AdSense display on a blog. It consisted of three lines. The first line read "Ads By Google" and just under that was "View Ads About:" and the third line had a blank search box and a submit button.

If you inserted the word "dog" in the box and clicked tbe button, you got a list of ads about dogs - just like you would if you clicked on an AdLink display. If you inserted "bicycle" in the box, you got bicycle ads...and so on.

Is this a new feature now available or am I just really out of touch?

FarmBoy

[hunderdown]

That's been around a while. I can't even remember how long. They throw that in there in place of one of the ads....

[skippy]

I usually see that with ad links when the page is new.

[farmboy]

Hmmmm. I'd like to have the option to have it all the time.

FarmBoy

[deepesh]

Hmmmm. I'd like to have the option to have it all the time.

Do you hope users will enter their word and search for ads? , That usually shows when G cant find relevant ads.

[farmboy]

Do you hope users will enter their word and search for ads?

Yes, I like the way it functions better than the AdSense Search feature.

Also, for a blog, it would be useful. If you write about a political topic, ads aren't limited to just the content of your text. A visitor interested in widgets could find relevant ads and a visitor interested in cooking could find relevant ads.

I like the concept. It gives the visitor what he wants instead of what Google thinks the visitor wants.

FarmBoy