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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008 by Andy Beal

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Rumor: Google to Offer “Recommended” Sponsored Links

UPDATE: It looks like it’s the work of a third party app. See Anne’s comment.

Now here’s something strange spotted by the eagle-eyed Anne Hennegar.

Is Google really getting ready to start a new level of sponsored search ads in its results?

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11 comments on “Rumor: Google to Offer “Recommended” Sponsored Links”

  1. Nicole Says:

    April 30th, 2008 at 11:28 am

    Wow! That should be interesting.

    Nicole’s last blog post..The Best ‘Money’ Songs Ever

  2. Philipp Lenssen Says:

    April 30th, 2008 at 1:47 pm

    Andy, do you have more info on what this is exactly? Looks interesting…

  3. Steven Bradley Says:

    April 30th, 2008 at 2:00 pm

    Interesting. I wonder if you get recommended if you have a particularly good quality score or if it has something to do with spending more money for the recommendation.

  4. Anne H Says:

    April 30th, 2008 at 8:31 pm

    I think we have an answer to this. I got an email from Mark Cramer at Surf Canyon indicating their software does add this section. I had their software on a test machine.

    I’ve not seen this recommended section before which is why it caught my eye. Mark indicated the blank section was probably caused by a blank user profile and the ad inventory. He also mentioned the next version will change the heading to state the recommended links are from Surf Canyon.

  5. Rick in Phoenix Says:

    April 30th, 2008 at 10:08 pm

    Anne, thanks for your clarification. Hopefully we’ll get a higher recommendation based on quality score and not cost.

  6. seo dude Says:

    May 1st, 2008 at 7:52 am

    It will probably be done automatically, in the way like smart pricing and PR. Then people will start complaining about various glitches and low quality sites being “recommended” by Google.

    seo dude’s last blog post..My marketing experiment – failure.

  7. Web Developer Says:

    May 1st, 2008 at 2:39 pm

    Google needs to continuously be updating their services, I think Adwords currently works perfectly, but when It comes we will deal with it accordingly. Thanks for the heads up.

  8. Eva White Says:

    May 10th, 2008 at 2:58 am

    Maybe thats companies they know for sure exist.

    Eva White’s last blog post..Rising Hemlines.. Rising Stocks

  9. freud Says:

    May 24th, 2008 at 12:31 pm

    i thought it was spyware, i will not be using google in the future

  10. DeeMX Says:

    June 7th, 2008 at 6:57 am

    Still like to hope that recommended links isn’t a sponsored links by increased prices.

  11. savings Says:

    November 6th, 2008 at 10:48 am

    All have changed now. Thanks can still serve for research purposes. Nothing is obsolete online these days.