eBads

August 2, 2006 9:34 AM

Looking for the Loch Ness monster, a new husband, Uranium, or bed sores?eBay can help (or so their adwords think).
posted by mattbucher (14 comments total)

Is there anything wildcards cant do?
posted by the ghost of Ken Lay at 9:39 AM on August 2, 2006

Google once told me I could find succor on eBay.
posted by peep at 9:43 AM on August 2, 2006

Let me try... yep, I'll bet you can find that on Ebay.
posted by justkevin at 9:46 AM on August 2, 2006

Wasn't that a blaxploitation movie? I'm Gonna Git You Succor?
posted by staggernation at 10:03 AM on August 2, 2006

When displaying images consisting mainly of text, choosy webmasters choose GIF.
posted by elmwood at 10:17 AM on August 2, 2006

My favourite, which I sometimes see on a political website I run, is "House of Lords Reform! Buy House of Lords Reform on eBay".

Which is where Jack Straw has been going wrong.
posted by athenian at 10:17 AM on August 2, 2006

i think they've revised the engine since i discovered these during the course of research years ago:

"find homeless singles at passion.com!"

"find slave trading on ebay!"

"buy new and used foreskin on ebay!"
posted by Ziggy Zaga at 10:33 AM on August 2, 2006

Interestingly, ebay does not offer to sell me "suppurating boils" when I search for them on Google. So clearly they show some level of discrimination in their adwords.

Just not much.
posted by adamrice at 10:38 AM on August 2, 2006

I've had 'new and used children' and 'new and used rice' before - hmmm used rice. How digested is it?
posted by goo at 11:23 AM on August 2, 2006

So I followed the electrocution link...

and found the least humane pest control device ever invented (2nd to the cat, I suppose).
posted by noble_rot at 12:55 PM on August 2, 2006

(Sob) When I made an FPP about this, it got deleted.
posted by Steven C. Den Beste at 1:20 PM on August 2, 2006

I've thought of putting up a gallery of screenshots of the non-sequitur images paired with messages on the Yahoo login screen. Currently: a woman gathering cloth in her hands, alongside the message "InstaList brings the bowling team together". Another one: a little kid holding a bunny next to "Spammers giveth. SpamGuard taketh away." SpamGuard kills bunnies?
posted by jiawen at 1:22 PM on August 2, 2006

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posted by TwelveTwo at 3:57 PM on August 2, 2006