During my daily trawl of all things that is web based I found the following on the Techcrunch website.
Basically Techcrunch have found out that Google is using these little festive capers as ways of drawing peoples interests to the ads on the right hand side. Personally I think its probably no more than Google trying to spread a bit of Christmas cheer!
The following are the terms which have been uncovered so far:
However I would be very interested to see what the potential revenue/click rates change is for this, personally I don’t think that it would make me anymore likely to click on them!
This entry was posted by Jonny Wing on Thursday, December 18th, 2008 at 3:35 pm and is tagged with Christmas, easter eggs, Google and is posted in the category Tech News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
Search for snowmen...
http://www.google.co.uk/images/snowman.png
Oddly enough this doesn't work for snowman. V. Poor SEO 
I can't see them. Google is scrooging me! 
recently moved to firefox and installed the ad blocker add on so cant see there revenue making links. must disable it and see if i can find a new chistmas word.
@Kelly
I think you've been a naughty boy this year, hence why Google is scrooging you! 
Looks like "christmas snowman" gets you the snowman as well
Xmas gets you holly.
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