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25 September 2007

Google News Indexing Ads On UK News Site

Google News May Index Your Ads

SELand noted today that Google News has been indexing a certain Nationwide ad ("Nationwide" the insurance company) in actually SERP listings for news titles. It's very interesting, and bad, but for some reason the text of the ad is showing up under headlines on the SERP for things like the UK kidnapping of Madeleine.

I don't think this is a widespread danger, because it's only happening for one site - InTheNews.co.uk. Anyway, there is something screwy about the way that Overture has chosen to display the ads on the site's pages. It just doesn't seem like a good design choice. Plus, the width of the ad has made a scroll bar necessary in my browser. Check it out.

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