Google Testing Yellow Background Color Behind AdWords Ads?

Mar 5, 2007 at 9:28am ET by Barry Schwartz

JenSense reports spotted Google testing a yellow background color for the top sponsored results in Google. Typically, those ads have a light blue background color, but Jennifer Slegg saw a yellow version and snapped a screen capture. I have heard others seeing this randomly, so it is possible that this is a running Google AdWords user interface test.

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http://googlified.com/2007google-sponsored-links-in-orange/ Haochi

To my knowledge, Google has been testing different colors of the AdWords for some months now. The version I saw last month of tend to be more orange-ish.
http://googlified.com/2007google-sponsored-links-in-orange/
http://www.britishchap.com David

Great idea for differentiating between paid and unpaid listings.

The biggest moan I get from clients is that they want to be top and not in the side bar – I hope this will move forward.

I don’t doubt it with Google :)

David
http://www.chatgroups.de sanateseri

Great idea for differentiating between paid and unpaid listings.

thanks :-)