Crazy Long Google Ads Description In Google Search

Dec 20, 2023 - 7:31 am 2 by
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Here is a wild bug in Google where the Google Ads description is just about 90 words. The limit Google Ads has for description is 90 characters, not 90 words - this one is 660 characters, 600 times more.

Punit shared a screenshot of this Google Ads bug on Mastodon - I am not able to replicate it, so it must be some outlier bug:

Long Google Ads Snippet

Here is another:

Long Google Ad

I can't imagine that Google would test such a long ad description but hey, Google does like to test weird and unusual things in its search results.

Here are more variations:

Have any of you ever seen this before?

Forum discussion at Mastodon.

Update: This may be related to Google testing headlines in descriptions:

 

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