inkmusings » comfort http://www.inkmuse.com/blog Sun, 17 Jul 2011 18:19:06 +0000 en hourly 1 Bad Google http://www.inkmuse.com/blog/etc/2005/02/24/bad-google.php http://www.inkmuse.com/blog/etc/2005/02/24/bad-google.php#comments Thu, 24 Feb 2005 19:02:39 +0000 inkmuser http://www.inkmuse.com/blog/?p=158 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!). :oops: 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:

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