You thought Google was sneaky with their advert or sponsored labels. Microsoft has a historical past of being tremendous sneaky with their advert labels in Bing Search. Here’s a new instance of Bing hiding the small advert label proper after the area title, usually it reveals up within the entrance part of the advert, which can also be arduous to see, however not as arduous as this.
Here’s a screenshot of this take a look at from Frank Sandtmann who posted about this on Mastodon and wrote, “Bing is at it once more: one other take a look at of a barely seen advert label. This time they place it proper behind the area title. An uncommon place mixed with a light-weight grey coloration that may almost certainly trigger many individuals to mistake it for an natural consequence. Shady.”
Here’s what I see:
I additionally see the “sponsored” variation which is significantly better:
This isn’t as unhealthy as some earlier checks, like some of the most invisible ad labels I’ve seen earlier than. And people image search ad labels.
I’ll credit score Bing right here, Shameem Adhikarath spotted Bing testing a line separator between a search advert and natural consequence:
Once more, if Google did this, this could trigger such a stir and rightfully so.
Discussion board dialogue at Mastodon.
