TL;DR
- Google is changing up a few elements about the appearance and functionality of text ads in Search results.
- A persistent “Sponsored posts” banner will remain over ad links.
- You’ll also now start finding a “Hide sponsored results” button beneath them.
None of us love having ads everywhere, but as least with Google Search, its ads are both a known quantity, having been around for decades at this point, and reasonably unobtrusive — product boxes notwithstanding, normal Search ads are just standard-looking text results. Today we’re getting a minor shake-up to how that all works, and before you start panicking too much, this might actually include a bit of an improvement.
Don’t want to miss the best from Android Authority?