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G sneaking in Google Desktop ads in SERPs

Abe Olandres Editor-in-chief July 19, 2006 · 1 min read

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Was checking my WP-Shortstats for referrals when I found this:

Google Desktop

Looks like the big G is trying to push Google Desktop back to it’s users. And I thought they said they’ll never put any image ads in their search engine results pages (SERPs)?

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Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and is considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines.

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2 Comments

jhay · 20 years ago

Maybe becuase of the rising concern for click-frauds that’s hurting the pay-per-click model of AdSense. I’ve read online articles discussing this issue. Forgot to bookmark them though, ;)