{"id":11657,"date":"2026-07-15T10:53:38","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T02:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/?p=11657"},"modified":"2026-07-15T10:53:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T02:53:38","slug":"google-tests-sticky-sponsored-results-with-gray-curved-borders-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/?p=11657","title":{"rendered":"Google Tests Sticky Sponsored Results With Gray Curved Borders, Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p> <div> <p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.seroundtable.com\/google-sticky-glue-XCJMHgop.jpg\" style=\"max-width:100%\" alt=\"Google Sticky Glue\" title=\"Google Tests Sticky Sponsored Results With Gray Curved Borders, Again\u63d2\u56fe\" \/><\/p> <p>Google is testing a slight update to the sticky sponsored results interface that it tested back in September 2024. Note: A version of this was launched in October 2025, but this interface has a thinner and smaller sponsored label and uses curved borders.<\/p> <p>This test was spotted by Khushal Bherwani who wrote on X, &#8220;Google with new layout for sponsored results . It&#8217;s look like a cards , rounded by corner.&#8221;<\/p> <p>Here is his video:<\/p> <p>It looks a lot like the September 2024 test, which Google confirmed was a test. <\/p> <p>He also noticed those read more links in the ads, but I don&#8217;t think that part is new.<\/p> <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"> <p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">\ud83e\uddf5 with read more . <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8deuAb7Nmc\">pic.twitter.com\/8deuAb7Nmc<\/a><\/p> <p>\u2014 Khushal Bherwani (@b4k_khushal) July 12, 2026<\/p><\/blockquote> <p>Forum discussion at X.<\/p> <\/p><\/div> <p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>#Google #Tests #Sticky #Sponsored #Results #Gray #Curved #Borders1784084018<\/p> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google is testing a slight update to the sticky sponsored results interface that it tested back in September 2024. Note: A version of this was launched in October 2025, but this interface has a thinner and smaller sponsored label and uses curved borders. This test was spotted by Khushal Bherwani who wrote on X, &#8220;Google [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11658,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[46315,46314,75,12534,308,15112,17957,1706],"class_list":["post-11657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-careers","tag-borders","tag-curved","tag-google","tag-gray","tag-results","tag-sponsored","tag-sticky","tag-tests"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}