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Google Sponsored Places That Expand On Hover

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17 Sept
Google Sponsored Places That Expand On Hover
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26 May
Google Tests Growing Expanding Shopping Ads

Google is testing Shopping ads that enlarge, grow and expand when you hover your mouse cursor over the ad unit. We saw something like this for another Google ad format in March

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4 Sept
Google Ads Collapsing Sitelinks That You Can Expand

Google Ads is testing another variation of expandable sitelinks, where sitelinks are collapsed by default and a number indicator shows how many more are available. You can then

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9 Jul
Google Ads Tests Favicons In Sponsored Results Sitelinks

Google is testing placing favicons in the sitelinks portion of the sponsored results from Google Ads. Generally, we only see the favicon in the main sponsored or organic listing,

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