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+Jeroen den Ridder sent me pictures of what appears to be ads within Google Maps Business Photos - you know, the instore views?
It came up for this specific view:
Now, I can't reproduce it, but he sent me a picture showing the ad overlay directly in the picture:
As you can see, there is this little icon that is overlaid on the picture. When you click on it, it is one of those AdWords local extension. Is this a browser bug or a feature? I am not sure.
He did share a screen that shows he has this ad extension live in his AdWords account:
I've never seen this on in-store business photos, have you?
Forum discussion at Google+.
Update: This seems to be a bug according to Google.
Comments:
Andy
11/12/2013 04:39 pm
Kaartpictogram is translated to map icon. My account shows this and i can choose from a list of 17 icons.
Eitan Gorodetsky
11/12/2013 04:54 pm
I think its a bug.
Jeff Lintz
11/13/2013 03:35 am
I saw this happen once, but was unable to reproduce it. Then again, I didn't try. I merely made mental note of it, but did not think twice of it. Now, if I do see it...
Graciousstore
11/14/2013 03:23 am
I have not seen that before .
Maike Schultze-Rhonhof
11/25/2013 01:37 pm
Here in Germany I recognized this feature many times before. I think, that it is not a bug. But sometimes it does not work very well...