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Advertising gone wrong: 23 poorly placed banner ads
Have you ever come across an advertisement on a web page that just made you think, "wow. That really shouldn't be there."? I've come across a few in my time, but it looks like the folks over at BuzzFeed have been running into them left and right; they've compiled a collection of 23 examples of web advertising gone bad.Their collection runs the gamut, having everything from an article linking coffee to heart attacks brandishing an ad from Folgers to Google providing "Are you a male virgin?" as a sponsored result to the search query "world of warcraft." BuzzFeed's commenters also provided a handful of user-submitted additions to the madness.
Also, if you're interested in more advertising faux pas, BuzzFeed has compiled 15 examples of poorly-placed billboard advertisements.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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DasBub said 6:00PM on 8-11-2009
I saw a good one, last night. I was at the site of a gourmet food magazine, and saw three separate ads for dog food. Well done, SEO wizards!
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Christian said 6:12PM on 8-11-2009
the link says 24, yet there's only 23... that itself is bad...
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gonintendo said 9:18PM on 8-11-2009
#16 is the best by far.
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pat1202003 said 9:24PM on 8-11-2009
This is why I love Firefox and the AdBlock add-on.
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Matt714 said 10:03PM on 8-11-2009
Haha, reminds me of what I saw in the Montreal subway yesterday.
Choisi ton camp = Choose your camp next to an ad for Montreal's Holocaust museum.
http://img24.imageshack.us/i/metrophoto.jpg/
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KeegdnaB said 11:05PM on 8-11-2009
I remember a couple years ago I was reading an article on the chicago tribune website about that plane that went through the wall at midway and right there on the page was an ad for southwest airlines.
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