In reading the news today online I was interested to see that an article about Jared (from the Subway ads) and his sex crime stuff was festooned with an ad for Viagra. No, I’m not joking, and if Google didn’t always remove my snapshot images making fun of internet ad blunders, I’d gladly share my snapshot with you. But rest assured it happened this afternoon, and I have the image to prove it if anyone tries to deny it.
I think maybe there’s some dumb program that randomly plunks ads into internet news articles, because I see this stuff all the time. I try to share it here, but within 48 hours the image is always replaced with a small square with a question mark in it, so eventually I gave up. Internet experts I know claim that since Google makes its money from advertising, and I often make fun of advertising screw-ups, they probably simply take them down to avoid offending their bread and butter. (It makes sense to me, but it’s still frustrating, as it’s just as fair-usey and fair-gamey as everything else on Blogger, for God’s sake!)
By now I thought there would be some algorithm to dictate what ads were not appropriate, like not putting boner pill ads in articles about child molestation or rape, or desserts/fast food in articles about childhood obesity, etc.
By now I thought there would be some algorithm to dictate what ads were not appropriate, like not putting boner pill ads in articles about child molestation or rape, or desserts/fast food in articles about childhood obesity, etc.
They’ve probably fixed this by now, but here’s the story (the Viagra ad was just beneath the video of Jared holding the jeans, to the right of the text):
And here's the image while it lasts:
