Sunday, July 29, 2007

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I get a kick out of some of those sponsored ads you see on the search results pages at Google and Yahoo.

Some of them seem quite strange …

Over the past few months, I’ve been finding more and more really odd ads appearing as paid search results. I guess there are a lot more companies buying words and phrases by the hundreds of thousands, if not by the millions.

Believe it or not, some companies actually think you might click on links like these:

(Note: The search term I used is shown in bold in the images below)

Not so sure I want a free sample ...

For those who do their best to remain unfashionable ...

But just in case you need just the one shoe (ugly or otherwise) ...

Plus, of course, some accessories ...

And why should it only be your feet that stink?

I never knew there was a market for this ...

Nor much of a market for these ...

I could be a supplier of these ...

Is this even legal?

Well, this must be illegal ...

Hmm ... maybe not if people are bidding on this ...

If nuclear annihilation isn’t your thing, another strategy for ending civilization as we know it ...

This one reminds me of a Monty Python sketch ...

Wow, I never knew you could get these on eBay ...