Tiny clipart image in Text Ads

If this is old news, you can slap me with a wet noodle.
I saw this small shopping cart image in the text ad.

 

Interesting, I havent seen it before but from a quick glance on their website they are using the new Google Checkout system. Could be some sort of promotion system advertising websites that use Google Checkout.

 

Haha i would love to do that, but i dont think this is old news.

- Sam

 

wow nice finding, i never see that kind of ads. what is the use for that?

 

They had been using little shopping cart icons before, but I'm not sure if they were in the content ads or just search ads, see: http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/004033.html

 

Here is some more information from Google, they call them "Google Checkout badges" https://checkout.google.com/support/sell/bin/topic.py?topic=8667

 

Hmmm. Google seems to add more and more images to the text link ads. That sucks, as it really screws up the blending...

 

yea, i agree

 

... why Google didn't want our competing images beside their ads. Like I have said before, Google found out (no wonder with all posts about it!!) how good it was with images to get people to click and they wanted it all by themselves.

 

Im seeing this on my site today, I dont like it at all

 

It will probably attract people to click ads and earn us more money yeeeeeeey