# So let's make a thread to confuse Google Ads.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-lets-make-a-thread-to-confuse-google-ads/324629>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [October 3, 2005, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-lets-make-a-thread-to-confuse-google-ads/324629 "2005-10-03T19:37:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2005, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-lets-make-a-thread-to-confuse-google-ads/324629/1 "2005-10-03T19:37:56Z")

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You know, the machine searches our message content, then links key words to its ad database. Let’s see what bizarre and purely nonsensical things it will advertise. Like pink penguin pajama parties with palpitating pudenda positions.

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**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2005, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-lets-make-a-thread-to-confuse-google-ads/324629/2 "2005-10-03T19:44:09Z")

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I beat you to it by five days:

> **[Let's REALLY screw up the ads at the bottom of the page](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=337290)**
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> Tyrannosaurus Virus Birth Control Democrats Tea Bags dildos

but they closed it because somebody beat me to it:

> **[Let's try and influence the Google Adds](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=336504)**
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> OK lets try some key words to influence the google adds in a way more likely to interest dopers. Goat, slurp, Jolly Roger, Vegimite, hot three way sex, rush music is great, fnord fnord fnord.

You gotta be fast around here

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**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2005, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-lets-make-a-thread-to-confuse-google-ads/324629/3 "2005-10-03T21:30:55Z")

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> [@CalMeacham](#):
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> I beat you to it by five days:
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> [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=337290](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=337290)
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> but they closed it because somebody beat me to it:
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> [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=336504](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=336504)
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> You gotta be fast around here

Yeah, there are only so many of these threads with which we want to clutter up the boards.