I saw a new Adsense ad that said - View ads about and then shows a search box below it. This is the first time I have seen such an Adsense ad. Anyone else has had a similar experience? I wanted to check it out but could not do so as it's against Google's TOS to click an ad on one's own site! See the attached image.
A search box instead of adsense links only unit is shown if there is no actual ads for that particular page to display. Adsense unit text+links shows a public service ads, unit with links only show this search box. There is no such setting in adsense setup but there might be a way to get this show permanently (not sure anyone would want that though).
this is absolutely right..thanks for saving my 2 mins to explain this. I explained this about 2 days back.
I had those ads in my site too. I was wondering if there is a way to get rid of them... Thanks for the info Snout
Nothing new.. They are shown when no ads are available for a particular keywork.. May be due to less content.