Sunday, May 06, 2007

Freaky Google ads

I was sent an email containing a number of family photos. The subject line was "Photos" and the body of the message was blank. The image files themselves were numbered, not given descriptive names.

Here are the Google ads that Gmail served up alongside this message:

Menstruation Pictures
Free Pictures & Illustrations About Menstruation.
www.healthline.com


Pomeranian Warning
All The Things You Probably Weren't Told About The Pomeranian
www.ThePomeranianManual.com


Che Guevara Rebel Test
Are You a Rebel Like Che Guevara? Take This 30 Second Free Test & See
www.DaVinciMethod.com


Lhasa Apso Dog Warning
All The Things You Probably Won't Be Told About the Lhasa Apso Dog.
www.lhasa-apso-dogworld.com

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

My guess is the blank message, unnamed photo files, etc., didn't give gmail's artificial intelligence anything to go on, so it had no choice but to serve you potluck.