When Ads by Google Go Wrong

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  1. Renaud says:

    Eric: maybe Google just thinks you’re too pasty.

  2. Eric Meyer says:

    My favorite is when I go to a Salon article and I get Google ads for information about owning my own tanning salon.

  3. Bryan says:

    What I find equally detestable and problematic is when the content management systems that run most newspaper web sites offer a chance to “BUY THIS PHOTO!” when the picture is of a crime scene, or child who has died, or something along those lines. A little human logic would go a long way in those situations as well.

  4. Daniel Carvalho says:

    Finally got rid of your serif headers. I am pleased.

    Cause we all know that ultimate goal in life is to please me.

  5. Jeffrey Zeldman says:

    Saw that episode and experienced similar things when I worked in advertising. Even though internet advertising is “wining” and traditional advertising is in decline, there are things a human being can think to do that an algorithm cannot.

  6. Ilai says:

    In the second episode of second season Mad Men have shown actions of advertising agency after air crash “Flight 1″ (1 march 1962). They have cancelled an own air-company advertising campaign, in order to avoid relations with accident in people subconsciousness.