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August 2, 2005

Googletestad - What is it?

Posted by Adam Viener

A quick search of the Wordtracker top 30 keywords for the day indicated a term I had never heard of, Googletestad. Why would so many people be looking for Googletestad, I wondered. So I started doing a little research, and to be honest I didn't learn much. I think Google may be testing something with this term.

When you do a search for Googletestad on Google you will sometimes see the following top paid search ad:

Congratulations!
This is a family save ad.
All systems are go!
www.google.com

It would appear that Googletestad actually stands for Google's Test Ad, and is used to test their adwords system in the live production environment.

So why is this showing up in the top 10 current keywords? Google must be running some massive traffic tests.

Any thoughts?

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1. Anders on August 8, 2005 11:12 AM writes...

It sounds like a swedishword mix, a site that has been googletestad is verified by Google ?? Can that be possible ??? I will search around a little bit to find out for myself.

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2. Bjorn on August 11, 2005 7:04 PM writes...

See this encyclopedia entry about googletestad:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googletestad

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