Google has just informed me that they have added the label “Google Promotion” to the Bourne Ultimatum video ads they have been running. They said they made this change to “make it more clear that this is not one of our objective search results or an ad, but an experiment promoting Google products.”
Here are before and after screen captures:
Before the “Google Promotion” label:
After the “Google Promotion” label:
Notice at the top right, Google has added the label, “Google Promotion.”
Related Topics: Google: AdWords
If that wasn’t grey enough for you this might be:
http://www.google.com/bourne
Where do the rest of us sign up to have Google redirect traffic to our sites?
“this is not one of our objective search results or an ad, but an experiment promoting Google products”
Not an ad, we’re just promoting our products using an ad like feature.
An ad is an ad is an ad.