Scene: the marketing department.
“We should like to advertise our fine retail establishment on the Google!”
“But we sell so many different products! How will we ever register enough ads to cover everything a potential customer could be searching for?”
“A solution! Google will let us advertise with a template that includes anything a user might search for! Surely, then, whatever someone is trying to buy—be it an object, idea, or person—they will be directed to our store!”
“Brilliant! Nothing could possibly go wrong.”
LOL
This is easily the tamest webad-gone-wrong I have ever seen.
For example:
http://www.adrants.com/images/iomega_burn_baby.jpg
But what if I wanted to purchase bedbugs? Dropping bedbug eggs in someone’s couch would be an excellent means of revenge.
I once was looking in Google Books at a book on Critical Race Theory. All the ads in the sidebar were something like “Meet sexy Asians!”
It made me smack my forehead
ann – see “Fishbomb” for the ultimate in long-term cruelty.
TRH