Google may have a bug with some of its search results formatting, where the sponsored results heading is sometimes not left-aligned. This does not seem intentional and it seems more like a formatting bug, but who knows.
For example, if you search for iPhone and look at the sponsored results label in different browsers, sometimes it is slightly not left aligned:
This is how it should show:
Same with this query but it is more pronounced:
vs:
It is easier to see in this GIF I made of it in action:
This was spotted by Sachin Patel who posted about this on X and Search Engine Watch.
Again, it seems like a bug to me...
Forum discussion at X.
