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Google not disclosing on imdb?

Mike Scott [PersonRank 1]

Monday, January 26, 2009
15 years ago2,391 views

Is anyone else seeing the ads on this page http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0822854/ (possibly others) under the title "People Viewing This Page May Also Be Interested In These Sponsored Links". The links are to googlesyndication.com and aren't nofollowed. While they disclose that they're sponsored links I'm not seeing a snipped saying "ads by google" or similar... is this regular practice?

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Ionut Alex. Chitu [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

The ads are displayed using scripts/iframes, so they're not very accessible to the crawlers. Premium publishers like IMDB can customize the ad formats and change/remove the disclosure.

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