I just noted this ad today on a blog - A normal looking “contextual” ad on a Google AdSense leaderboard with a strange character/image near the ad text. - yep, yet another one!
This one’s interesting because it is not a special character, but an icon. An icon image of a shopping cart in the url text of an ad. I have no idea how this crept in, probably because -
1 -The advertiser used a special character or a combination of characters that goes undetected (looks normal) during the checking process.
2 - He used an image.(That’s bit too too weird)
3 - Google is trying some new features on ads like allowing adwords clients to use special characters/images.
Whatever it is, it seemed pretty cool to me, because it caught my attention all of a sudden. I bet it will grab your’s too.
UPDATE - 11.38 pm IST, 28 Dec
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Apologies for those who came in late. I learned that this is the Google Checkout feature that’s seen as the shopping cart on the ad. This thread at digitalpoint had discussed the same topic earlier.
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Oh ye. I read on problogger.net that google’s experimenting with a few icons. This one surely grabs ur attention n all the more good 4 the advertisers. But the google icon they used on the text ads was a bit distracting for ppl who like to blend their ads into the their posts coz it makes them stand out.
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