Obama Too Tall To Be President? Google Brain Damaged.
Humor, Politics February 10th, 2009
Barack Obama is apparently too tall to be President of the United Sates. He does not fit Marine One, the Presidential Helicopter:
Oops… the bump does not appear that serious, but gee …Google AdSense Nonsense recommends brain damage lawyers:
Wonder how long it will take for Google to pull those ads. in the meantime, here’s some more fun with “contextual” Google ads:
- The Irony of Google Ads
- Freezing Heat. Dumb Ads.
- The Irony of Contextual Advertising
- Contextual Advertising Blunders
- The Scary Thing about Contextual (?) Advertising
- From The Ad Targeting At Its Finest Department
Update: as we know President Obama received a new uber-super-safe-ugly limo. Is this a subtle hint that he needs a new chopper?
Update #2: I think I hurt Google’s feelings. My posts typically show up in Google search results in minutes, but this one is nowhere to be found.
Tags: adsense, contextual advertising, google ads, helicopter, marine one, obama, youtube ads
Freezing Heat. Dumb Ads.
Humor, Marketing / PR October 24th, 2008
Screenshot from Yahoo Weather this morning:
We’re expecting heat today, and Yahoo (weather.com) placed a snowy pic, offering all sorts of winterizing services along with my forecast. I guess it did not notice the weather display was in Celsius, and 31C is about 88F.
For more advertising blunders see:
- The Irony of Contextual Advertising
- Contextual Advertising Blunders
- The Scary Thing about Contextual (?) Advertising
- From The Ad Targeting At Its Finest Department
Tags: adbrite, adsense, advertising, Adwords, contextual advertising
FAA Failure – Golden Vista Ad
Humor, Marketing / PR August 26th, 2008
As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words. Well, this one certainly belongs to the contextual ad blunder series.
(Source: IT Project Failures)
Additional ad blunders:
- The Irony of Contextual Advertising
- Contextual Advertising Blunders
- The Scary Thing about Contextual (?) Advertising
Tags: adbrite, adsense, advertising, Adwords, contextual advertising
FeedBurner Loses Half Your Subscribers
Blogging, SaaS August 15th, 2008
Check your FeedBurner stats, but don’t worry too much: no, there was no mass exodus, you did not lose more than half your subscribers overnight.
There’s a simple explanation: FeedBurner is missing Google FeedFetcher stats- that’s the number of users who read your blog in Google Reader. Last time I reported the same, Google Reader represented about 40% of my readership- apparently now it’s about 60%.
Ironically it happens on the day when FeedBurner is in the news for launching AdSense for feeds.
Tags: adsense, feedburner, Google, google feedfetcher, google reader, outage
The Irony of Contextual Advertising
Marketing / PR, SaaS October 29th, 2007
I fully agree with Ionut: Gmail’s spam filtering is amazingly effective. I don’t really care about how they do it, as long as it works this well.
But there’s a bit of irony in his post on Google Operating System, and it comes from none other than Google: just as soon as he’s done praising Gmail, Adsense serves up ad ad from a competing service: onlymyemail.com.
Funny thing is, competitor or not, Adsense is correct: the ad is as contextual as it can get, since the article was about spam filtering.
Of course it could have been a lot worse…
(P.S. the pic is only for illustration of what I found on Ionut’s blog; I am not running ads here)
Update: Donna Bogatin found another Web Blooper.
Tags: adsense, advertising, blog ads, contextual ads, Google, Online Advertising
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