Okay, so being able to buy ‘women’ on eBay was funny. But this is taking the piss:
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Okay, so being able to buy ‘women’ on eBay was funny. But this is taking the piss:
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November 6, 2004 at 20:42
Is this some joke from Google or from eBay? I’m for sale as well (at least I was when I just tried). Huh?
November 6, 2004 at 20:48
They’re affiliate links, so presumably someone’s buying spots for odd terms and hoping that people will click on them so that they then get commission if a person wins an auction after following the link. I don’t think this is Google or eBay’s doing.
November 6, 2004 at 20:57
You’re probably right, I don’t really see the point of it though. As far as I know Google removes any keywords if you don’t get sufficient click-throughs, so why all the effort for names? On the other hand, may be all the ego-surfers click to see what is offered for them?
November 6, 2004 at 21:11
LOL – I’d go with the ego surfers argument!
November 7, 2004 at 03:13
LOL That was hilarious, going to throw you off ego surfing for a while eh ? Must be a shock to see yourself for sale
November 7, 2004 at 10:55
I wanted to see if I was for sale, but it seems I’m not on eBay. That either means I’m too precious to sell, or there’s no demand. I’ll go with the latter.
November 7, 2004 at 22:58
I believe if you spend a large enough amount with Google every month (as that affiliate company appears to do), you can have a special type of Adword which is dynamically created based on the search word. Something like “if wordlength