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When Good AdWords Ads Go Bad
by Allen Stern on May 23rd, 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.
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.
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!
Haha… nice one, Allen. :) I had never seen those ASCII ads.
Btw, I thought Swiss (army) knives are better? :)