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Do We Really Want Video Ads in Search?
Now this is one place I’d prefer not to see video advertising: Google search results pages. But the New York Times Bits blog tells us the company started testing such ads this week.
Google already sells video ads for other sites, including syndicated YouTube partner videos and their ads. But recently its cleanly designed home page and search results have been gradually transformed to include more links and more multimedia.
Google’s Marissa Mayer, vice president of search products and…