Thursday, February 09, 2006

Auctioning God

I had just responded to an email on the topic of religion today when I got to thinking. If I Googled for God, what would be the first site to come up? I decided to find out.

The search results themselves (totaling 480 million) were much as expected. Closer examination, however, revealed a wonderful little glitch with the Ad Sense algorithm. The top sponsored ad was for Ebay, with an ad that read "Looking for God? Find exactly what you want today www.eBay.com".

I never thought an online auction could be a religious experience.

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