Using AdWords to Express Feelings
Heheh. I came across a very weird thing. Apparently people are paying Google to help spread their opinion. ‘Nothing new’, you’d say… until you see it’s actually a very personal AdWords ad. Very personal. I wonder how long it’ll take for this to become common. I mean if you look at all the ‘exes’ (ex-boyfriends, ex-girlfriend, ex-employees,…) there’s gotta be a market for it !
Anyone else spotted something similar? Post it in the comments !
Check it out at [ProBlogger] : the weird AdWords Ad reads :
“All bloggers must die” with the text : “Especially Jason Calacanis, a clueless pseudo-journalist.”
Well, Chinese search engine Baidu.com recently started up a program called “express love Baidu”(ç™¾åº¦ä¼ æƒ…), for the Traditional Chinese Valentine’s day — Qi xi(which means the date of July 7th).
The program provides 7777 chances for users to publish text ads to express their love to wife, husband, girlfriends, boyfriends….
Comment by hzJoey | August 11, 2005
AdWords, not AdSense. Sorry to be anal about it, but ads are purchased via AdWords, displayed on the Content Network via AdSense.
Comment by Adam | August 11, 2005
(with that said, I’m really shocked about the hatin’-Jason ad. I know that Google has a policy against “hate speech” kinda ads, and would have assumed that this sort of ad would have gotten filtered out in editorial review).
Comment by Adam | August 11, 2005
As Adam said, the post originally said AdSense where it should have said AdWords. I’ve made the necessary corrections.
What am I, an editor now?
Comment by Nathan Weinberg | August 11, 2005
Hey I was just quoting the source, besides, My own blog has AdSense running, and the Ads pretty much looked the same to me. So I figured : what the heck, let’s blog this !
Comment by Coolz0r | August 11, 2005