Script to strengthen the colour of Google's ads?
Jane
Google's results page.
Maybe the faint background colour can be made more visible.
Can you suggest some script to put in my user CSS file?
Adrienne Boswell
news:Xns9E43A74205C3A53F89A@%ip:
There is a id of tads that you might be able to do something with. Did
you see that the ads on the right hand side are all decorated for the
Season?
Here's my CSS in a special stylesheet (googleads.css)
#tads {
background-color:#c0c0c0!important;
color: gray!important;
}
I edited site preferences and pointed to that special stylesheet.
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Jane
> Gazing into my crystal ball I observed Jane <ja...@invalid.com> writing
> in news:Xns9E43A74205C3A53F89A@%ip:
>
>> I want to easily distinguish (and ignore) the ads listed at the top
>> of Google's results page.
>>
>> Maybe the faint background colour can be made more visible.
>>
>> Can you suggest some script to put in my user CSS file?
>>
>
> There is a id of tads that you might be able to do something with.
> Did you see that the ads on the right hand side are all decorated for
> the Season?
>
> Here's my CSS in a special stylesheet (googleads.css)
> #tads {
> background-color:#c0c0c0!important;
> color: gray!important;
>}
>
> I edited site preferences and pointed to that special stylesheet.
That works GREAT but sometimes it doesn't work at all. Maybe Google is
changing something on its results page.
For example, on this search the ad background does not gave a grey colour.
http://www.google.com/search?as_q=television&as_sitesearch=en.wikipedia.org
All I can guess may have changed is the keyword "tads" in your code but I
don't really understand CSS. Any more suggestions?
Adrienne Boswell
Dragonfly to the rescue!!! The bit we're looking for is called rhs_block,
so change your stylesheet to include that id as well, like so:
#tads, #rhs_block {
background-color:#c0c0c0!important;
color: gray!important;
}
Or if you don't want to see them AT ALL:
#tads, #rhs_block {
display:none;
Jane
> Gazing into my crystal ball I observed Jane <ja...@invalid.com> writing
> in news:Xns9E4F8917AA52453F89A@%ip:
>
>> On 17:32 3 Dec 2010, Adrienne Boswell wrote:
>>
>>> Gazing into my crystal ball I observed Jane <ja...@invalid.com>
>>> writing in news:Xns9E43A74205C3A53F89A@%ip:
>>>
>>>> I want to easily distinguish (and ignore) the ads listed at the top
>>>> of Google's results page.
>>>>
>>>> Maybe the faint background colour can be made more visible.
>>>>
>>>> Can you suggest some script to put in my user CSS file?
>>>>
>>>
>>> There is a id of tads that you might be able to do something with.
>>> Did you see that the ads on the right hand side are all decorated
>>> for the Season?
>>>
>>> Here's my CSS in a special stylesheet (googleads.css)
>>> #tads {
>>> background-color:#c0c0c0!important;
>>> color: gray!important;
>>>}
>>>
>>> I edited site preferences and pointed to that special stylesheet.
>>
>> That works GREAT but sometimes it doesn't work at all. Maybe Google
>> is changing something on its results page.
>>
>> For example, on this search the ad background does not gave a grey
>> colour.
>>
>> http://www.google.com/search?s_q=television&as_sitesearch=
>> en.wikipedia.org
>>
>> All I can guess may have changed is the keyword "tads" in your code
>> but I don't really understand CSS. Any more suggestions?
>>
>
> Dragonfly to the rescue!!! The bit we're looking for is called
> rhs_block, so change your stylesheet to include that id as well, like
> so:
>
> #tads, #rhs_block {
> background-color:#c0c0c0!important;
> color: gray!important;
> }
>
> Or if you don't want to see them AT ALL:
>
> #tads, #rhs_block {
> display:none;
> }
Thank you. Your code makes the right hand adverts show up more clearly but
unfortunately it still doesn't highlight the ads at the top of the list in
this link.
http://www.google.com/search?s_q=television&as_sitesearch=en.wikipedia.org
Maybe the "sitesearch" option in the link causes the results page to use a
different keyword than "#tads"?
I looked through the source but it's all a jumble to me. Can you suggest
any other solution?
Adrienne Boswell
It works for me, I see neither the top nor side ads. I'm using the
"display:none" option from above.
Since I thought others might be interested I wrote up a tutorial
available at:
[http://www.cavalcade-of-coding.info/remgoogleads.php]
BootNic
[href^='/'] {
color:red !important;
}
div > [href*='/url?']:before,
div > [href*='/url?']:after,
h3 [href*='/products?']:before,
h3 [href*='/products?']:after,
div [href*='/images?']:before,
div [href*='/images?']:after,
h3 [href*='/search?']:before,
h3 [href*='/search?']:after,
h3 [href*='/aclk?']:before,
h3 [href*='/aclk?']:after,
p [href*='/search?']:before,
p [href*='/search?']:after,
p [href*='/aclk?']:before,
p [href*='/aclk?']:after {
content:'';
opacity:0.7;
width:16px;
height:16px;
display:inline-block;
background-image:url(https://www.google.com/favicon.ico);
background-size:100% 100%;
background-origin:padding;
background-clip:padding;
margin:0 3px;
vertical-align:middle;
border:rgb(0,0,0) inset 1px;
border-radius:3px;
border-spacing:1px;
}
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Jane
> Gazing into my crystal ball I observed Jane <ja...@invalid.com> writing
> in news:Xns9E4F8917AA52453F89A@%ip:
>
>> On 17:32 3 Dec 2010, Adrienne Boswell wrote:
>>
>>> Gazing into my crystal ball I observed Jane <ja...@invalid.com>
>>> writing in news:Xns9E43A74205C3A53F89A@%ip:
>>>
>>>> I want to easily distinguish (and ignore) the ads listed at the top
>>>> of Google's results page.
>>>>
>>>> Maybe the faint background colour can be made more visible.
>>>>
>>>> Can you suggest some script to put in my user CSS file?
>>>>
>>>
>>> There is a id of tads that you might be able to do something with.
>>> Did you see that the ads on the right hand side are all decorated
>>> for the Season?
>>>
>>> Here's my CSS in a special stylesheet (googleads.css)
>>> #tads {
>>> background-color:#c0c0c0!important;
>>> color: gray!important;
>>>}
>>>
>>> I edited site preferences and pointed to that special stylesheet.
>>
>> That works GREAT but sometimes it doesn't work at all. Maybe Google
>> is changing something on its results page.
>>
>> For example, on this search the ad background does not gave a grey
>> colour.
>>
>> http://www.google.com/search?s_q=television&as_sitesearch=
>> en.wikipedia.org
>>
>> All I can guess may have changed is the keyword "tads" in your code
>> but I don't really understand CSS. Any more suggestions?
>>
>
> Dragonfly to the rescue!!! The bit we're looking for is called
> rhs_block, so change your stylesheet to include that id as well, like
> so:
>
> #tads, #rhs_block {
> background-color:#c0c0c0!important;
> color: gray!important;
> }
>
> Or if you don't want to see them AT ALL:
>
> #tads, #rhs_block {
> display:none;
> }
Thank you. Your change to the CSS code now makes the right hand adverts
show up more clearly. Unfortunately it still doesn't highlight the ads at
the top of the list in this link.
http://www.google.com/search?s_q=television&as_sitesearch=en.wikipedia.org
Maybe the "sitesearch" option in the link makes Google use a different
keyword than "#tads"?
I looked through the source for that page but it looks like a huge jumble
to me. Can anyone see any useful keyword in there to use with "#tads"?
Adrienne Boswell
What happens when use Dragonfly? Can you find the area when clicking on
it? I am not seeing any ads -- even without my user stylesheet.
Jane
I have never used Dragonfly. I didn't even know it was part of Opera until
I did a search!
I just tried Dragonfly but I don't know which part I am trying to look at.
When I click the ad, the "Dom" tab highlights this text but it doesn't
contain any keyword with a # sign like you found.
<li class="tas knavi" style="position: relative">
Adrienne Boswell
Jane, did you see the tutorial I posted a few days ago? It explains how
to start up Dragonfly and how to use it.
[http://www.cavalcade-of-coding.info/remgoogleads.php]