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When Good AdWords Ads Go Bad
Written by Allen Stern - May 23, 2008
The fine folks at Web monitoring service Pingdom are out with their latest list. This time it's Goole AdWords ads that have gone contextually wrong. From a new brain on eBay to visiting Hell with Kayak, these ads are a hoot.
Here are a couple of my favorites from the list:
Here we find that selling on eBay is like selling your soul - with all of the fees they charge and the PayPal fees, I guess it makes sense.
We already know that the Germans make the best knives (see latenight tv), now we know they make the best AdWords ads. I just love these ascii ads -- too bad Google has banned them. I've watched that second car for hours and it never gets any closer to the car in front of it.
COMMENTS - Add New Comment
Haha... nice one, Allen. :) I had never seen those ASCII ads.
Btw, I thought Swiss (army) knives are better? :)
yea Till - here in the US they say German knives are the best
probably in your land they say swiss are best :-P - all marketing gimmicks!
Ebay and Google are both evil. The only difference is that at least initally, people could make a living from selling stuff on ebay. Now the fees and prices are outrageous on ebay! Don't get me started on adwords. Talk about a money pit.
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