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This isn't a banner ad. This is essentially a branded search. It's not like Google is targeting users with Flash-based crud here. To call it a banner ad is kind of silly.
"There will be no banner ads on the Google homepage or web search results pages. There will not be crazy, flashy, graphical doodads flying and popping up all over the Google site. Ever." -Marissa Mayer
That "banner" is not a "crazy, flashy, graphical doodad". That is pretty much the company's logo.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Only one ad without Adblock. http://i.imgur.com/pQqF9uz.png Maybe check to see if you have some malware inserting ads?
Google's result do not follow a person-agnostic algorithm, so he may get 20 ads and you only 1. As a matter of fact, I get none.
I get zero ads if I search for “trash can” but an ridiculous amount of ads if I search for “Mülltonne” (German for “trash can”), all because I’m searching on http://google.de/.
Screenshots: http://imgur.com/a/Yco1R#0
(Hey, the German results leak the city I’m currently staying at. The first organic result is a form to sign up for the city’s garbage collection.)
In related news: I am no longer with my college girlfriend, despite the fact that 8 years ago I told her I would never leave her.
Corporate promises aren't worth a dime as history has shown repeatedly. In fact, corporations (especially large ones) can't ever be trusted for pretty much anything and anything they say or do you should always react sceptically by default. They just don't care, and this lack of caring is an inevitability for growing corporations. Granted some might consider this to be a minor breach of a promise, some might not. The…
You can absolutely trust them if they are say "we are doing this to maximize profits for our share holders / owners".
Then, what is this expectation that one should be able to trust them to do anything else at all? Surely the mere existence of consumer law should tell us something.
Over the years Google is way more aggressive with ads then it used to be. For any query less and less percentage of first page is dedicate to organic example. E.g. a silly example: https://www.google.com/search?q=trash+can 25-30% organic, rest are the adds.
Only one ad without Adblock. http://i.imgur.com/pQqF9uz.png Maybe check to see if you have some malware inserting ads?
Not the first time, I must add. When Orkut was all the rage, Google claimed that Orkut would never be merged with the Google core and would remain separate to Google. The same seems tobe happening with YouTube. Sure, they still allow users to keep their YT & Google identities separate but IDK how long that will last. Remember when they claimed their motto was 'Don't be evil'? (NB: Before you come screaming at me for…
I think, they just needed that to collect my aggregate search+video watching behavior for ad targeting, which they got.
This isn't a banner ad. This is essentially a branded search. It's not like Google is targeting users with Flash-based crud here. To call it a banner ad is kind of silly.
The full quote is still true. "There will be no banner ads on the Google homepage or web search results pages. There will not be crazy, flashy, graphical doodads flying and popping up all over the Google site. Ever." -Marissa Mayer That "banner" is not a "crazy, flashy, graphical doodad". That is pretty much the company's logo.