Google Inserting Ads in Drop Down Search Field

It appears Google is tinkering with its drop down menu again. When I was searching for sporting goods a few days ago, I noticed that the usual keyword search counts have been replaced with title tag text and PPC ads.

As you can see in the screenshot below, Google is inserting the title tag info and link as well as AdWords ad text. The screenshot for Overstock.com shows just the title tag. Overstock also runs PPC ads so I’m not sure why they didn’t score a title tag and an AdWords ad.

I’ve look through several Google blogs, but can’t find anything about this new change. If you’ve read info from Google about this, post your comments here.

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3 Responses to “Google Inserting Ads in Drop Down Search Field”

  1. Edward - June 9th, 2009

    Thats true, I have also came across with the same.

  2. John Smith - September 29th, 2009

    I came across the same thing, by writing “can ” in the search field. This is bad!

  3. John Smith - September 29th, 2009

    Forgot to mention the ad doesn’t come up unless you write “can” and then hit spacebar. Just in case someone is going to test it.

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