I've seen it before, its been showing up for a while now.. they come in other color variations other than dark blue.. lets hope they don't keep it because of the borders..
I just saw a post from the Dutch version of "Inside Adsense" in my RSS reader. It says they tested the new layout for a while and results show it improves business for both advertisers and publishers. It also says it will be the new default looks of Adsense ads and they expect all sites to show the new style in a few days. The change will be fully automatic. See adsense-nl.blogspot.com/2007/04/opmaak-makeover.html (Dutch!). Didn't see an (official) English source yet, please post if you did.
yes ive noticed it on my site a few times. Although it does go back to the old style when its wants too. Anyway i just like to congratulate myself 100 posts
Lately I've also been noticing Ads By Google written in an image-like form and in other ways... Google confuses me. In that image, Ads By Google is also different but not like I'm trying to explain. :/
Congrats on your 100th post Noticed earlier on that my adverts have changed a little, one of the dog adverts shows a little dark image of a dog, in a text style. Hard to explain but it doesn't look too bad. Doesn't blend in so well with the rest of the site though...
Personally, I'd like the option of using it or not, then I could do some A/B testing to see if it improves business for my particular site. It may work on some sites, it may not work as well on others.
The new formats look great on my site.... I don't use borders so the G footprint is almost unnoticeable... Check it out on my blog
My understanding is that it's currently being rolled out. I haven't done a lot of checking but the times I did starting this evening, the ads looked to be all of the new type.