Google, which many of us use almost every day, has been in search results for years. puts advertising sites at the top. You may have noticed that with every search you do, strange irrelevant sites take up the top and almost half of the first page. Sometimes we don’t see these ads on a site that doesn’t help us. we can spend minutes.

Google, which almost brought us in the eye that such sites once advertised, made a small change in 2019. made it hard to detect. The American technology giant, receiving a lot of complaints from users in this direction, finally decided to change this system.

“Sponsored” will be written instead of “Advertising”

Ginny Marvin, Google’s head of advertising, said in a statement on his Twitter account today: “Advertisementthe sentence “”sponsored“They changed it to,” he said. Marvin also noted that the color blue, which was previously difficult to see on a black and white background, added that it will be replaced by green.

According to Search Engine Land news, Google officials, who tested this new ad phrase with a limited number of users in the first quarter of 2022, said in user feedback.sites with ads on both mobile and PC much more comfortable has been detectedthey said. However, many users on the Reddit forums use this phrase during an important search. that they can easily overlook stated.

Google has made agreements over the years to make ad sites harder to notice and often asks its users about this. is subject to criticism. Do you think it will be easier for you to notice these sites if you write “sponsored” instead of “advertising” next to sites that advertise for Google?

Google’s “sponsored search results” phrases over the years