Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Is your PC virus free? Get it infected here!

Have just read quite possibly the funniest (and equally worrying) thing ever. This guy decided to run a Google Adword campigan with the ad to the right just to see how many people were stupid enough to click on it.

The campagn cost him $17 and he got a click thru rate of 0.16% which was actually 409 individual users, 98% of which were using Windows. The amazing thing is that Google allowed the ad even thoug it was worded in such a way as to be clear it could be dodgy.

Read more here.

2 comments:

Tuscan Tony said...

...and at the same time google rejected my adword text because it contained the word "pool". They're anxious to avoid sponsored ads for gambling, obviously not so concerned about viral spirals.

Anonymous said...

I guess that these folk were using computers that belong to people or organisations they don't like.