Wednesday, August 31, 2005

hurricane katrina

As with most of America and the world, I have been captivated by Hurricane Katrina for the past few days. I first got interested after it hit Florida and started heading straight for New Orleans. Since then I have been glued to a computer pointed at google news waiting for more updates, watching the blog and webcams from a hosting company in New Orleans, and nearly every news reporting agency out there. The thing that really gets me - and I have come across it quite a bit now that google owns the world - are these adwords. I'm reading about how hundreds of people are dying, 80% of a city of half a million is under water, oil is more than $70 a barrel, and google is shooting me ads for portable shelters and flood insurance?

Katrina and Google

I know, I know, it's just some algorithm that extracts words from the article and serves ads based on the content, but ... I don't want to say it's funny, because it's not, but what else can I say?

posted @ 10:27 AM

comments

Crash24 said:

I think that those ads are quite helpful, especially for those in the area that still have web access. While they might not be able to help NOW, getting a storm shelter would definately help in the future.

i was yelled at on wed, august 31 @ 10:56 am

joeshmoe554 said:

This whole situation sucks, so finding some humor in the google ads is a good thing in light of what's happening.

i was yelled at on wed, august 31 @ 4:13 pm

buck said:

well, you need to look at it this way. NEW ORLEANS GOT PWND! you could say that it is a great tragedy, whatever, if i heard there was a huricane coming towards me, you know what i would do? GET THE F*CK OUT OF TOWN!!!

i was yelled at on thu, september 1 @ 4:20 pm

Pobre42 said:

in the middle of a shitty situation it helps to find humor...but it sucks

i was yelled at on fri, september 2 @ 11:11 am