{"id":11939,"date":"2026-07-19T10:53:38","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T02:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/?p=11939"},"modified":"2026-07-19T10:53:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T02:53:38","slug":"google-confirms-testing-hide-sponsored-products-in-shopping-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/?p=11939","title":{"rendered":"Google Confirms Testing Hide Sponsored Products In Shopping Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p> <div> <p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.seroundtable.com\/google-logo-hidden-XHJV6MiR.jpg\" style=\"max-width:100%\" alt=\"Google Logo Hidden\" title=\"Google Confirms Testing Hide Sponsored Products In Shopping Results\u63d2\u56fe\" \/><\/p> <p>Google has confirmed that it is testing the hide and show sponsored results within the Google Shopping search results interface. Google launched the hide\/show sponsored results in the main search results last October and is now testing this feature within Google Shopping.<\/p> <p>Ginny Marvin, the Google Ads Liaison, confirmed this for me on X by replying to me saying, &#8220;We&#8217;re testing ways to make ad labeling more consistent across search and shopping ads.&#8221;<\/p> <p>This test was spotted by Sachin Patel who posted these screenshots on X:<\/p> <p>Hide Sponsored Products:<\/p> <p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.seroundtable.com\/google-shopping-hide-sponsored-products-6HhFxVoc.jpg\" style=\"max-width:100%\" alt=\"Google Shopping Hide Sponsored Products\" title=\"Google Confirms Testing Hide Sponsored Products In Shopping Results\u63d2\u56fe1\" \/><\/p> <p>Show Sponsored Products:<\/p> <p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.seroundtable.com\/google-show-product-ads-YfCgOGLT.jpg\" style=\"max-width:100%\" alt=\"Google Show Product Ads\" title=\"Google Confirms Testing Hide Sponsored Products In Shopping Results\u63d2\u56fe2\" \/><\/p> <p>Here are his screenshots:<\/p> <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"> <p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">Is Google now showing the &#8220;Hide sponsored results&#8221; option for Shopping ads as well?<br \/>I remember Google testing it for Search ads, but I don&#8217;t recall seeing it on Shopping ads. @rustybrick @gaganghotra_ @brodieseo <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PDj2OWMW71\">pic.twitter.com\/PDj2OWMW71<\/a><\/p> <p>\u2014 Sachin Patel (@SachuPatel53124) July 11, 2026<\/p><\/blockquote> <p>Early on, it was speculated that this interface for sponsored results led to accidental clicks but I assume that may have lessened as searchers have become more accustomed to this interface.<\/p> <p>Forum discussion at X .<\/p> <\/p><\/div> <p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>#Google #Confirms #Testing #Hide #Sponsored #Products #Shopping #Results1784429618<\/p> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has confirmed that it is testing the hide and show sponsored results within the Google Shopping search results interface. Google launched the hide\/show sponsored results in the main search results last October and is now testing this feature within Google Shopping. Ginny Marvin, the Google Ads Liaison, confirmed this for me on X by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11940,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[7209,75,34471,559,308,1638,15112,2114],"class_list":["post-11939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-careers","tag-confirms","tag-google","tag-hide","tag-products","tag-results","tag-shopping","tag-sponsored","tag-testing"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11939","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=11939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}