Bad Google
Apparently there’s a new Google game afoot: Google Giggles (my name, I haven’t heard it named elsewhere). Similar to the game where you try to come up with a two-term search that results in one and only one Google hit, in this game you try to force a bizarre GoogleAd based on common words. Google’s AdSense program, which I used to have here at inkmusings, generates small context- sensitive ads that many are using to make $$ on blogs, sites, etc. But as you can see by the samples at the right, they don’t always make sense! 
The real challenge thus becomes one of trying to force a GoogleAd to show up that isn’t from eBay, since it’s obvious one can buy anything at eBay is seems (and New or Used!). 
And you may find that no matter how bizarre the term, there’s likely to be a rock band out there named that, such as in the case of an ad for a music store selling Toejam’s latest offering! So applying the eBay-doesn’t-count rule is not as easy as one might think.
Sometimes, though, the results are a bit scary. As the ad below shows, we tend to make things easy for terrorists these days in the good ol’ US of A. :huh:
One Response to “Bad Google”
You laugh, but that’s why I got rid of my AdSense ads! I often post about greyhound adoption, and they would stick “buy a greyhound!” and “puppies for sale!” ads on my blog. No thanks!!