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Unusual text ad on Google

Posted on 24. Jun, 2009 by Nikhil Sheth in Google

While doing some random searches on Google today, I came across this very unusual ad. I was searching for keywords for Delhi and few other words, when I saw a text ad with following details

1) Headline of ad: Text ad
2) 1st Line: Desc1
3) 2nd Line: Desc2
4) Display Url: www.url.com
5) Destination Url: http://www-test-0000000139-com.netsolads.com/………………….

How can these ads go live google, when google claims to have strict policies for ad text. Also as per google policy, your display url and destination url should be same, which is not in this case. And when I clicked on the ad, it took me to a page which is completely blank.

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Tags: Google ads