DId Google yank the 'no ads' search already?

[Jp!]

http://forums.macresource.com/read/1/297...msg-297640

I get ads, now.

Pity, I liked ad-less Google the best. (and no ads in the search results)

[michaelb]

I don't seem to get ads although maybe I didn't test it correctly.

[papercup]

I don't understand WHY they would yank the ads. Was it a proxy-Google by a 3rd party or what? Thats how Google makes money. I think.

[Jp!]

I do get them now.

[Jp!]

Well, to understand why, it might have been a secret/back-door query used only by google employees and once the cat was out of the bag, they changed it.

See the video in tugger's original post I link(ed) to above. It shows the differences. I WAS using it that way, too. But now it's changed (back).

[michaelb]

strangely it seems to depend on what you search for. Searching for "keen sandals" (since I am wearing them) gets tons of ads. Searching for "ipod shuffle reset" (since my partner is having trouble with her shuffle) gets me no ads still today.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=ipod+shuffle+reset