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Reported by a member over at our forums, who asked me to post a thread on his behalf, AdWords Getting Large: 4 Lines. Let me say that this is coming from someone I trust and the image is not doctor'ed up. It may be a test or it may be a bug. But it is for sure large. It occurred on a search for california weather.
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Forum discussion at Search Engine Roundtable Forums.
Update: Gary Price added a postscript to Danny's link to us on this topic saying;
A Google spokesperson has confirmed that Google is currently conducting a "limited test" of longer ads.A test! That deserves some forum discussion! How could they!
Comments:
Laurent Bourrelly
01/25/2006 12:15 am
Hi, Nice hoax ! It looks more like the user shrinked the browser window. The Ad looks normal on the SERP, but if I make my window smaller I get the exact same Ad than your friend.
Barry Schwartz
01/25/2006 12:16 am
This is not a hoax, please see the link the SEW Blog, a Google Rep confirmed this to be a test.
Laurent Bourrelly
01/25/2006 12:26 am
Hi again, I made a screenshot of what I mean http://img359.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screenshot0462pc.jpg Unless you have a 200x400 type of screen the Ad shows up on 2 line, but indeed if you play the trick it looks huge.
Laurent Bourrelly
01/25/2006 12:36 am
Sorry I made a mistake. It's 3 lines I was talking about (missed a couple of words before the URL). Here is the Ad looking "normal". http://img27.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screenshot0488wk.jpg So I guess it's a test on 3 lines Ad we're talking about ? Anyway, you are right about the fact that Ads are taking more and more space... whatever the number of lines ;-)
Jojo
01/25/2006 01:39 am
It´s not a test of 3 oder 4 lines AdWords-ads. It´s a test with a longer ad text. This was first noticed in the last October. More at <a href="http://www.seobook.com/archives/001245.shtml">seobook</a>.
Barry Schwartz
01/25/2006 03:11 am
JoJo, nice find, didn't see that at SEOBook and I read it daily for the past two years. :)
Adam Bunn
01/25/2006 04:29 pm
I've been approached by G on several occasions to help test out longer ad text on behalf of my clients. I don't remember the exact lengths, but at one point one of my ads had four versions - standard 70 character, 90 character, 130 and something like 170 characters. Unfortunately, we never got to see the test results ourselves.
Security
09/21/2006 10:49 pm
there is really a big future with adwords, but i think there is a bigger future with advertisment von community groups with profiles oO