Dear Google…Why Are You Putting Ads Where The Editorial Goes?

This is a little squicky.

Had the Google “web clips” mini-RSS reader thing show up in Gmail a couple of days ago. Set it up with some feeds. All is well.

Here’s what it looks like:

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Today, I was clicking the little arrows and scrolling through. News. Blog post. Blog post. News. News. Ad. News. Blog post.

Waitaminute.

(back back back)

Yup. There’s an ad right there, in the same space all the selected, editorial content is going. Only thing that highlighted it was the sponsored link moniker, in subtle grey.

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Bad, bad design. Not very nice at all.

Others talking about the clip capability:
Steve Rubel
Danny Sullivan

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