Monday, October 09, 2006

oh, the irony

I was reading about google's acquisition of YouTube on Forever Geek just now, when a google ad actually caught my eye. This is a rarity these days, as I have been trained to avoid those little text boxes altogether, but check this out:

adWords

Now, I remember laughing when I saw flood shelters being advertised on news sites thanks to google's adsense program, but this is too much to bear. It is a google AdWords advertisement that literally says "Don't sign up for AdWords". I know that technically it is not an ad BY google per se, but I still see some irony in it.

Wherever you get your jollies, I guess.

In other news, I picked up a couple more simple freelance jobs. I really need to put some work into my portfolio I decided. I need to get back in to this whole web thing so I don't get rusty. Bleh. College.

posted @ 8:27 PM

comments

Erik said:

Nice spot on the adwords. I saw that google bought youtube too. I see this as a good thing since there is really nothing to lose (except 1.65 Billion).

i was yelled at on mon, october 9 @ 9:47 pm

dave said:

Which, of course google makes in about .00454356 seconds with adwords anyway. *sigh* google owns my soul.

i was yelled at on tue, october 10 @ 12:20 pm

Erik said:

And mine...

i was yelled at on tue, october 10 @ 9:10 pm

James said:

Yay Davie's got a new site layout

i was yelled at on wed, october 11 @ 4:26 pm

dave said:

heh, same layout, new look. The XHTML was nearly untouched!

i was yelled at on wed, october 11 @ 5:07 pm