While Googling today for the newspaper 'Muslims Weekly' as part of my research for a story on Yvonne Ridley, I noticed this advert in Google's sponsored links. Pretty bad, but not quite as bad as that news site a while ago that had a Google AdWords link to cheap plane flights next to a story about an air crash.
But I'm sure there are plenty more stories of keyword disasters out there, just waiting to be told...
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From BeachBum, 23:12 6 April 2005
Thought you may like to know that inappropriate online ads from Google and others have been covered in depth for many years by the good people at NTK.
They get sent so many that they had to set up a separate site for them at dohthehumanity.com.
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