I can't remember the last time I saw a Google banner ad online (ever?). While checking out Lifehacker, I noticed a banner for Google Checkout. Is this new?
http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/2725/googlefm8.jpg

I dont think thats a banner ad. Thats the Banner for a Google Checkout partner.. I have seen it on other sites..

Thats what I thought at first. The entire ad only mentions Google Checkout though. Check out the full gif:
http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/517/lifehckrosconsafe728x90vg6.gif

the original poster is correct.

google has been advertising on sites including lifehacker and techcrunch for a while now. i have seen ads for employment and checkout. they all tend to be simplistic

google is a nice search engine, but now in china baidu is preferable, anyway, big ups to all google agents in china, how can i be part of google

Here's another one...
http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/4893/lifehckrosconsafe300x250cr6.gif
I saw that a couple days ago and posted on my blog. :D
http://googlified.com/2006image-of-the-day-24/
Oh yeah, there was a flash ad on Search Engine Watch a while(probably 30+ days) ago...