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Omnios
September 5th, 2006, 10:54 PM
Article title:
eBay's Advertising Gremlins Want You To Buy Steve Irwin's Death



http://techdirt.com/articles/20060905/123722.shtml

Man this is so low to an all time low

croak77
September 6th, 2006, 02:08 AM
What's so low...it's not like they are trying to insult the guy. It's just random. It's not like google is/was doing it on purpose.

Polygon
September 6th, 2006, 05:46 AM
its not sad, its just the way the ads were programmed.

the ads are basically told to display your search terms in between "buy ______ on ebay"

so if you searched "the moon", you could get "buy the moon on ebay"

and since people are searching for stuff like "steve irwen dead", the same concept. the ad takes the search terms and attempts to make an ad with it.

i bet if you click that ad, you wont get anything remotely close to "steve irwen dead"

%hMa@?b<C
September 6th, 2006, 12:30 PM
if you read this, you would see that it is just the ebay advert that says it, nobody actually selling a dead body.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/05/ebay_steve_irwin/

Omnios
September 6th, 2006, 01:31 PM
Oh k. Now that settles my stomach

hizaguchi
September 6th, 2006, 03:19 PM
And yet, if I search for "buy politicians", no ads at all!

BWF89
September 6th, 2006, 11:36 PM
And yet, if I search for "buy politicians", no ads at all!
That's pretty ironic consitering, well you know.:p