The Google-Ads are looking awfully visual lately aren't they?

February 24, 2004 2:14 PM

The Google-Ads are looking awfully visual lately aren't they?
posted by feelinglistless to Bugs at 2:14 PM (14 comments total)

Yeah, they sent me new code today to replace the old code and apparently the custom colors seem to be gone. I've emailed and left a phone message with my google ad rep, but haven't heard anything back. Hopefully the custom colors come back later today or tomorrow.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 2:25 PM on February 24, 2004

I was just going to mention the same thing. It's not the end of the world or anything, but I do hope the colours come back.
posted by tiamat at 2:38 PM on February 24, 2004

actually... today is the first time i've seen the ads/sidebar in my Opera browser for a while... i forgot when it disappeared.

i probably see it now because i just updated to 7.5 p2 last night.
posted by lotsofno at 4:15 PM on February 24, 2004

Just a quick question but aren't the MeFi TextAds against Googles no competing textads policy ? Did they grant you an exception ? Just curious because I run textads.biz and some people have removed my ads when they went with Google.
posted by zeoslap at 4:35 PM on February 24, 2004

For Google's standard adsense setup, yeah you can't advertise anything else. I'm in a special adwords program for commercial sites that's different so other ads are fine.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 4:55 PM on February 24, 2004

Lies. You've gone mad with GREED.
posted by angry modem at 6:32 PM on February 24, 2004

They look great with the low-fi stylesheet, actually. Better than usual.
posted by jessamyn at 6:49 PM on February 24, 2004

Hey, ZeoSlap Best. User. #. Ever.
sorry, I'm sure its been mentioned before, but its the first time I noticed.
Jessamyn, I'm afraid I find them to distracting that way. The visual impact hovers somewhere between that of a static banner and the text-ads we've come to know and, well, know. Might just be me, but my eye automatically goes to the brightest thing on the page. I generally read the text ads, mostly to see how well targeted they are, but I don't want to read them before I'm done with the thread. Just my opinion though.
posted by Grod at 7:58 PM on February 24, 2004

Glad this was posted, was about to mention it just like feelinglistless. I hope they get back to you soon Matt, it's rather garish.
posted by moonbird at 8:20 PM on February 24, 2004

I don't mind the new style ads. It adds a little variation to the otherwise fairly monochrome front page. /sacrilege
posted by Blue Stone at 3:11 AM on February 25, 2004

People look at the Google ads?
posted by agregoli at 6:50 AM on February 25, 2004

Now that they're laxative blue, we do.
posted by VulcanMike at 12:43 PM on February 25, 2004

Thanks Matt.

People look at the Google ads?

It's a thing.
posted by feelinglistless at 3:45 PM on February 25, 2004

Even if custom colors are no longer provided, you can simulate them by altering the properties of the iframe via JavaScript. That's probably against Google policy somehow, but really it has no practical reason to be.
posted by abcde at 1:44 PM on February 26, 2004