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Valleywag Triple Play

Three items of interest from Valleywag this morning:

Jason Calacanis doesn’t understand that you can’t include extraneous text with your Google ads, especially if it seems like you are encouraging users to click the ads. His Mahalo wiki search engine has “[keyword] Ads by Our Friends at Google” above the AdSense ads, which definitely breaks more than one part of the AdSense Terms of Service. You’d think that with all of his experience optimizing ads for Weblogs Inc, one of AdSense’s big success stories, he’d know better.

photo by Coneee under CC

Somebody stole the Google logo off the side of the building housing Google’s Santa Monica office. Literally, just ripped the thing out of the marble, leaving nothing but holes in the building in the shape of the missing logo. I’d love it for a wall decoration, if anybody wants to send it. But seriously, don’t be surprised to find it on eBay or something.

And finally, you have to read this story about what happened at Dennis Crowley’s new startup. Area/Code, the company Crowley started after leaving Google (pissed off at its handling of his previous startup, Dodgeball), suffered a robbery, probably by an overnight worker, who took two laptops, a flat screen, and a digital camera. The truly sick twist? The criminal spent the night having drunken sex with a hooker. A transvestite hooker. Who he left, hung over, passed out and surrounded by sex paraphanelia on the company couch.

Oh, and the couch is stained, and I won’t say by what.

If you see a listing for a black leather couch on Craigslist, don’t take it!

July 10th, 2007 Posted by Nathan Weinberg | Culture, AdSense, Humor, Advertising, General | one comment