Two Takes Balanced

A Google ad type that makes perfect sense: huge branded banners

via Searchengineland
1 min read
Oct 23, 2013
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TECHi's Analysis

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If you do a search in Google for “Southwest Airlines”, there’s probably a pretty huge chance that you want to go to Southwest Airlines’ website. Google is making that even more obvious than just the first search result and they’re making a little money on it as well.

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Searchengineland's Report

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Google has confirmed that they are testing incredibly large banner ads for specific branded queries.

@SynrgyHQ posted an image on Twitter showing for the query [southwest airlines a huge “sponsored” ad at the top of the search results.

TECHi's Verdict: Balanced

TECHi weighs both sides before reaching a conclusion.

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