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Consider an alternate universe where Southwest Airlines has a worse reputation due to a variety of bad practices they've engaged in. These banner ads have the p

Consider an alternate universe where Southwest Airlines has a worse reputation due to a variety of bad practices they've engaged in. These banner ads have the potential for pushing many hits describing these practices further down the page, stifling the ability for organic results to properly reflect public opinion on a company.

thrownaway2424 13y ago
As pointed out below, these images aren't "pushing" anything down anything. They are about the same height as the stuff they replaced. http://searchengineland.com/figz/wp-content/seloads/2013/10/google-banner-ad-vs-standard-branded-results.jpg http://searchengineland.com/figz/wp-content/seloads/2013/10/...
- mindcrime 13y ago
  > As pointed out below, these images aren't "pushing" anything down anything. They are about the same height as the stuff they replaced. Doesn't matter. Users are going to see this, and their mind is going to register "huge fucking banner ad". They aren't going to go find old screenshots, break out a ruler and do pixel by pixel comparisons.
  - alanctgardner2 13y ago
    If the "pushing" issue is that negative results can be put below the fold, or further down the screen, size is totally relevant. As somebody pointed out, this folds in the top organic search result. It's more like a natural evolution of the author pictures Google indexes. Yes it's eye catching, but you could just as easily end up with the juxtaposition of a big AA ad, followed immediately by an article about a hijacking. Plus there's the argument that people have been trained to ignore banner ads. This could bite advertisers depending on the other organic results and their demographic.
    - mindcrime 13y ago
      If the "pushing" issue is that negative results can be put below the fold, or further down the screen, size is totally relevant. As somebody pointed out, this folds in the top organic search result. If the issue about following content being above or below "the fold" were the only issue at stake, I'd agree. But from the pics in the article, I feel like people are going to see this and have an immediate, visceral, negative reaction, because it looks and feels like a huge banner ad. But, if, as some people are saying, this is ONLY going to be for very specific brands and situations where the linked "ad" really would have been the top organic anyway, then maybe it won't be so bad. I had originally thought that this kind of ad was going to be allowed broadly and that they would be popping up all over.
- aw3c2 13y ago
  Uhm, in that image there is another search result pushed off the bottom of the page.

thrownaway2424 13y ago

As pointed out below, these images aren't "pushing" anything down anything. They are about the same height as the stuff they replaced. http://searchengineland.com/figz/wp-content/seloads/2013/10/google-banner-ad-vs-standard-branded-results.jpg http://searchengineland.com/figz/wp-content/seloads/2013/10/...

mindcrime 13y ago
> As pointed out below, these images aren't "pushing" anything down anything. They are about the same height as the stuff they replaced. Doesn't matter. Users are going to see this, and their mind is going to register "huge fucking banner ad". They aren't going to go find old screenshots, break out a ruler and do pixel by pixel comparisons.
- alanctgardner2 13y ago
  If the "pushing" issue is that negative results can be put below the fold, or further down the screen, size is totally relevant. As somebody pointed out, this folds in the top organic search result. It's more like a natural evolution of the author pictures Google indexes. Yes it's eye catching, but you could just as easily end up with the juxtaposition of a big AA ad, followed immediately by an article about a hijacking. Plus there's the argument that people have been trained to ignore banner ads. This could bite advertisers depending on the other organic results and their demographic.
  - mindcrime 13y ago
    If the "pushing" issue is that negative results can be put below the fold, or further down the screen, size is totally relevant. As somebody pointed out, this folds in the top organic search result. If the issue about following content being above or below "the fold" were the only issue at stake, I'd agree. But from the pics in the article, I feel like people are going to see this and have an immediate, visceral, negative reaction, because it looks and feels like a huge banner ad. But, if, as some people are saying, this is ONLY going to be for very specific brands and situations where the linked "ad" really would have been the top organic anyway, then maybe it won't be so bad. I had originally thought that this kind of ad was going to be allowed broadly and that they would be popping up all over.
aw3c2 13y ago
Uhm, in that image there is another search result pushed off the bottom of the page.