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Faking out Google Ads is Hilarious!

We’ve all seen it before at one time or another. You type something semi-obscure into Google, and come across an ad that has absolutely no way of being intentional.


You can bet that no one at Target decided they wanted to sell ducks feet. These ads are simply targeting popular words (while carefully avoiding very negative ones like “death”), and combining them into an automatically generated ad. It’s funny, it’s nonsensical and you know that they are spending money on these Boolean phrases and keywords hoping that they’ll bring in some real buyers along the way.

We decided to take 3 minutes and have a bit of fun with them, to see just how far these ads will go.
Here’s what we found…

Again, these are all real results we just got through a few minutes of simple Google searches. Try it out for yourself and let us know what hilarious ads you uncover!

About Jeff Jahn

Husband, (soon to be) father, lover of life. Founded DynamiX Web Design, LLC. in Atlanta Georgia. Co-Founded Think App Studio and a partner in Home Elephant, the world's first neighborhood social media platform. Work has been featured by Fast Company, CBS, The Huffington Post, ABC, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, The Next Web, The Atlanta Journal Constitution, The Wall Street Journal, Adweek, CBS' The Early Show, Smashing Magazine and more.
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One Response to Faking out Google Ads is Hilarious!

  1. Jonathan says:

    That's funny! I like the moose ears one :)

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