Google testing giant search banner ads, breaking its 2005 promise

"There will not be crazy flashy, graphical doodads flying and popping up all over the Google site. Ever."

Sounds like they promised not to do annoying flash pop up adverts. I don't see how this breaks that promise.

Thanks for posting this.

I've already changed my search engine and homepage to startpage.com. I guess I've been looking for an excuse to do this for a while now...