Over-zealous Ebay ads

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Thursday, March 10. 2005

Over-zealous Ebay ads

Well, definitely not PHP related, but...

Anyone else noticed that Ebay's affiliates have been a little over-zealous in their ads, lately?

Babies for sale...
http://blog.phpdoc.info/uploads/adsgonewrong.png

Google for "bombs"...
http://blog.phpdoc.info/uploads/adsgonewrong2.png

(my wife pointed out the "babies" one)

Weird stuff.. (-:

S
Posted by Sean Coates in Fun at 21:34 | Comments (4) | Trackbacks (0)

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I remember seeing an article where Ebay actually admits to doing random google adsense ads, for this exact reason.

It makes sense, get a bunch of random cheap words ... greate WTF effect
#1 Aaron Wormus (Homepage) on 2005-03-11 01:35 (Reply)
"Used" babies?! :-)
#2 Richard Heyes (Homepage) on 2005-03-11 10:35 (Reply)
Dude, you're on sale :)
http://www.phpied.com/images/sean_on_sale.gif
#3 Stoyan (Homepage) on 2005-06-01 14:11 (Reply)
Hey Stoyan -- are you the same Stoyan I worked with at HTC?

S
#3.1 S (Homepage) on 2005-06-01 14:23 (Reply)

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