Author Topic: FTC to search engines: Make it clear which results are ads  (Read 1804 times)

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Re: FTC to search engines: Make it clear which results are ads
« Reply #1 on: June 26, 2013, 02:36:08 AM »
Before clicking through I was going to say, "haven't we heard this before?" That was 2002?! Time flies...

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Re: FTC to search engines: Make it clear which results are ads
« Reply #2 on: June 26, 2013, 05:50:10 PM »
Do you know what the rules are for print? I believe the "advertorial" ads are required to use a different font among other things.

Personally, I add Google Ads to my personal stylesheet for my browser - it had gotten to the point that on most display I was unable to tell the difference