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This Is What Happens When Context Is Lost.

John Battelle's Searchblog

AdWords worked best when you used it directly on Google’s site — because your ad came up as a search result right next to the “organic” results. If your ad was contextually relevant to a user’s search query, it had a good chance of “winning” — and the prize was a potential customer clicking over to your “landing page.”

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This Is What Happens When Context Is Lost.

John Battelle's Searchblog

because your ad came up as a search result right next to the “organic” results. If your ad was contextually relevant to a user’s search query, it had a good chance of “winning”?—?and either their search query (if on Google’s own site), or the context of what they were reading on sites all over the web.

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This Is What Happens When Context Is Lost.

John Battelle's Searchblog

because your ad came up as a search result right next to the “organic” results. If your ad was contextually relevant to a user’s search query, it had a good chance of “winning”?—?and either their search query (if on Google’s own site), or the context of what they were reading on sites all over the web.