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What did I search for?

DPic [PersonRank 10]

Monday, October 30, 2006
17 years ago2,825 views

http://www.gamesforthebrain.com/game/whatsearch/

Now here's a fun game. You are shown the results and not the query and you have to guess what it was.

Philipp Lenssen [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

Did ya know that's my site? :)

Jake's View [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

Just like this: http://gwigle.varten.net/

DPic [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

[put at-character here]Philipp

hahaha yeah I actually found it from http://outer-court.com/ I just had forgotten-- anyways, cool games! They're addicting

Eytan Buchman [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

I remembered playing it a while ago and then forgot where it was. Thanks for posting it up again....And awesome game, Philip!

Roger Browne [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

Heh – I guessed correctly, then got the "Continue" screen. I clicked the video playback arrow, thinking it was somehow part of the game. But it wasn't – it was a video Ad.

Roger Browne [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

I just checked again and it doesn't say "Ads by Google" or anything similar. No indication that it's an ad.

Philipp Lenssen [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

> I just checked again and it doesn't say "Ads by
> Google" or anything similar. No indication that it's
> an ad.

Huh? Weird. This is a normal, anything goes AdSense, which is usually disclaimed with "Ads by Google". Even the video ads (which I never saw on any of my sites, but Sam sent me a screenshot) usually show an "Ads by Google" in the bottom right, albeit less noticeable. Do you have a screenshot please Roger?

http://blogoscoped.com/files/video-ad-on-google-blogoscoped.png

Roger Browne [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

Here's what I saw:
http://roger.browne.googlepages.com/video-ad.png/video-ad-full.jpg

It played the same "Jackass 2" ad that you showed in your screenshot, but wasn't able to see the first frame as a static image.

It may be relevant that I am using Flash Player 7 (the latest non-beta flash player for Linux).

Philipp Lenssen [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

Thanks. This sucks. I wonder if this problem is connected to the large rectangle ad specifically. I'll contact AdSense support. Of course I could disclaim the ads myself but then it would be redundant on 90% of the ads... it would say "ads" twice! I did include a small "advertisement" below now though in the meantime.

Philipp Lenssen [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

Roger: the omitted disclosure is a bug, not a feature, Google tells me... they're looking into it.

Roger Browne [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

I have checked with the latest beta of Flash 9 for Linux, and the disclosure does appear. It looks pretty much like Sam's screenshot.

But for now, Flash 7 is still the latest official Linux version.

Sam Davyson [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

The other interesting thing for me about the screenshot (my one) is the little x in the top right hand corner. You can banish the ad with a single click.

I am *pretty sure* that it is built in functionality by Google and not some extension I am using.

Roger Browne [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

I don't get the little x, but if I hover my mouse over that corner the tooltip says "close".

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