Lying Google advertising, or Google uses Adblock in its ads

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by shooper • 13 years ago

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ithkuil• 13 years ago

I've tried "oldest pub in limerick" and it gives me no ads, but it has a google map box on the right side, not sure if it counted as an ad.

calciphus• 13 years ago

The right-hand side stuff isn't available in most countries yet, so it likely wouldn't have shown up in a real-world use.

VikingCoder3• 13 years ago

It's not like this is hard to check. Set the custom date range, and do the query yourself:

https://www.google.com/search?q=oldest+sweet+shop+near+mochi...

No ads shown. If you want to be sensationalist, then please start by trying to be accurate.

powertower3• 13 years ago

What about the other 99.999999999995% of search queries?

I think the OP's point is they are mis-representing what they are offering.

eli2• 13 years ago

"pizza" is whole different kind of query than the one shown in the ad. "Best toy store near dupont circle" has no ads.

The worst you could accuse them of is picking a type of query that doesn't usually have ads. I don't think that's lying.

ColinDabritz• 13 years ago

I wonder how this affected the value of buying ads for the keywords used in the google campaign...

Currently it appears there are 'no ads' there, but could there be if you bought keyword ads?

kissickas• 13 years ago

Is the image displayed just an ancient one? I forgot about that sidebar on the right, and I can't replicate that or get the black bar on the top outside of Google Translate.

jmsduran• 13 years ago

If you take the original idea of the search shown in the ad, and reformat it to look like a rather ordinary search query, you get this:

https://www.google.com/#q=biggest+candy+store+near+Austin%2C...

Not using ad-block, you can see some of the ads OP is referring to.

Lying Google advertising, or Google uses Adblock in its ads

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