Either this is a stock ad and a coincidence or this is a fine example of ad targeting gone wrong. At least it’s something to lighten the mood as Steve Jobs takes a break for health reasons. Thanks for the tip Fabian.
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LOL at Jobs obsolete.
Does Kaplan offer courses in Pancreas 2.0?
hope he gets well. but that is pretty funny.
WTF is up with the ton of garbage on Techcrunch’s homepage? It’s an orgy of images and ads galore.
TechCrunch has a homepage? Not according to my XML feed reader and twitter.
Not only is the Techcrunch homepage an orgy of images and ads but when you hit the homepage it plants 60 cookies. Try it, clear out your cookies, then hit the homepage…sixty cookies!
Sadly hilarious. here are a few more:
http://www.zoli...-heat-dumb-ads/
http://www.zoli...ising-blunders/
Get well Steve Jobs.
Uhhh … its not really that bad …
An article about semi-retirement because of health reasons matched with an ad from a university touting better job skills is a bad thing in Michael world?
Maybe it was the use of “obsolete” but .. really? this was so controversial to you?
…
LOL
truth of matter is ad targeting in general needs work
I suppose this one’s better than the MSNBC business headline that was next to an Apple story — “Jobs Outlook Grim in 2009″
snoooooooorrreeeeeee techcrunch…grow up
this ad targeting too smart, lol
An article about semi-retirement because of health reasons matched with an ad from a university touting better job skills is a bad thing in Michael world?
http://kisalt.net/d2
Techcrunch is taking a page out of the failblog.org book. I like it.
What! Mike you don’t have an ad blocker? seriously?
After german billionaire Adolf Merckle committed suicide, the contextual ad next to the news post was a book at Amazon “Last exit: How to commit suicide fast and without pain”. Here is the screenshot.
Thanks for translating what the article and ad say. I can’t even find them on the screenshot.
A semantic engine would have helped here…
this most likely a coincidence. I doubt this contextually targeted. Most likely it targeted at “news”, not the keyword “jobs”. If is contextual, it is a great example of the short comings of that technology. Semantic targeting would fix it.
Thx. That’s a great one.
One more reason why we need the semantic web!