Crazy Google ads
I couldn't help but notice the flurry of anti-Obama Google ads on the sift in the past few months at the height of the election.
Now that Obama has WON, I don't mind sharing a few. I find the one with Obama smoking in the company of Castro and his ilk quite compelling, if not poorly cut together. Here is a smattering of these and other ads that have been circulating the sift:
Now that Obama has WON, I don't mind sharing a few. I find the one with Obama smoking in the company of Castro and his ilk quite compelling, if not poorly cut together. Here is a smattering of these and other ads that have been circulating the sift:
So... questions:
(1) How are these ads chosen to appear on the sift? Search terms? Content? Right-wing conspiracy?
(2) Why does Moses have bunny ears?
(3) Is that supposed to be a LASER through Ben Franklin's EYES?
(4) Does this ad make me look fat?
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Not sure about the rest, but I believe that Moses was depicted with horns on many renaissance statues because of a mis-translation of the Hebrew word for "halo".
My favorite is a diet add where the before picture is the body of a black lady, and the after picture is the body of a white lady. I decided I'm going to save it if I see it again, but no luck so far.
my divine influence causes these ads to appear
People, people! You're all missing the real issue here! Which is: How can you set the background color of this site to pink! How did you even notice those ads with a flashy color like that covering about half the site?
Seriously tho, nice job on collecting those ads. That last one is the winner IMO. Please tell me why they consider Fidel to be a terrorist!
What ads?
I'm a charter member.
*quality
Awarding blahpook with one star point for this contribution to Sift Talk - declared quality by jwray.
Don't Google Ad advertisers have rights to disallow certain content as such porn and so on from appearing? Maybe Dag has to filter out a few more. Because if you log out some of the ads are really hilarious.
But then again Sifty gotsa to have his dough.
Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)
I do filter out ads where I can. The problem is that they are geo-targeted as well. The ones I see in Australia can be very different. I will try and get these removed, but it's kind of like whack-a-mole.
i think the content of our comments are enough to offset the ads
I love my pink background! I can never be too sad about Obama and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the same picture when they're framed in pink happiness...
I downloaded an add-on for firefox that removes them all!
Basically what you're looking at here is just ad fishing... Make an ad that just pisses people off, and makes them pissed off enough to click through. OR, in this case, you get the double win of either getting them to click through because you are pissed off OR you're a whack job who believes this sh*t, and so you click through because you want to revel with like minded imbeciles.
It's sad.
Pathetic.
Divisive.
But they must be getting something out of it, as they're paying for the clicks.
1. The internets belong to the right-wing now that the country belongs to the left. It's in the terms of use.
2. Rays of light... with bad cropping.
3. I think it was supposed to be red lips on money but they got bored with it half way through.
4. This ad makes you look fabulous.
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