When Contextual Advertising Goes Horribly Wrong | Mashable! view story

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mashable.com — Did the above banner ad really show up side-by-side with the rather gruesome story on CNN.com about severed feet washing up on shore in British Columbia?

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  1. That is too funny! not to mention the putyourfeetup ad looks like two corpses lying side to side as if they were executed.

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  2. Oh man, that's just hysterical!!!! I'm gonna be laughing at this all day. :-)

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  3. oops...lol

    just goes to show contextual advertising can be good, but it can also go horribly horribly bad

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  4. The problem is the above mentioned contextual ad was assigned to general news stream, I think. Ad like that must be put in a special news stream similar with the ad topic.

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85397_24 calinazaret submitted this on June 19, 2008.