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Rumor: Google to Offer “Recommended” Sponsored Links

posted on April 30, 2008

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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  • http://www.greatpriceshere.com Nicole

    Wow! That should be interesting.

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

  • http://blogoscoped.com Philipp Lenssen

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

  • http://www.thevanblog.com Steven Bradley

    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.

  • http://www.timeatlas.com Anne H

    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.

  • http://www.hotphoenixrealestate.com/ Rick in Phoenix

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

  • http://www.exposedseo.com seo dude

    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.

  • http://www.netage.co.za Web Developer

    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.

  • http://www.evawhite.com Eva White

    Maybe thats companies they know for sure exist.

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

  • freud

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

  • http://www.deemx.com DeeMX

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

  • http://www.hsbc.co.uk/1/2/personal/savings savings

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 Nothing is obsolete online these days.

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