Ads appeared in the search bar of the Google Play app store. socialbites.ca correspondent drew attention to this.
Now in the app search window, ads for promoted apps are shown in the top row. If the user previously went to the Google Play search bar, they saw four requests saved in the history. Now these are the four requests shown below the ad unit.
In addition to the name of the promoted application, the name of the developer, the user rating of the program and the total number of downloads are displayed. At the same time, the ad unit is not marked with a special “Ad” icon to indicate that it is an advertisement, as is the case with other Google services.
The novelty has been rolled out all over the world, including in Russia, but so far not all Google Play users show ads.
Formerly socialbites.ca saidGoogle’s increase in the number of ads in the Gmail mail service mixed with incoming letters infuriated users.