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Monday
Sep292008

Cheating Live ads

I try to use Live Search (people think I'm crazy).  I figure if I use it enough it'll learn and become a better search engine.

I was looking for Flight Centre today - and this came up in the ads.

flightcentre

I clicked the second one - thinking that was the right address.  Turns out that was a trick and I was sent to EscapeTravel.com.au

/slap

  1. The advertising should NEVER had allowed the ad to have a subject of a different company's URL
  2. The advertiser should have the decency to not to impersonate someone else's URL

Bad Live search.
Bad Overture.
Bad Escape Travel.

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