[helene_t]

Google ads apparently uses some AI method to fetch relevant ads. Sometimes its recommendations can be insulting (why does it think that I need a facelift?), sometimes its an enigma, sometimes it's amazingly clever. Most often its trivial, pointing me to sites I already know and use.

Sometimes its funny. Like the painkiller ad that accompanied the story about a prisoner who had a lightbulb removed from his rectum.

But this one puzzled me: Is it a sort of joke, or is it really as un-intentional as it seems? Gmail's own spam folder gave me a link to a spam recipe.

Please contribute to this thread with your own funny findings from Google ads and similar automated link/content providers!

[cherdano]

I think the spam recipe came out of their algorithm and they just left it their as a joke, would be typical for Google.

The funniest ones for me were those that always showed up when I was looking at the e-mail exchange with my collaborator on computing Hodge integrals on moduli spaces of twisted stable maps to classifying stacks of cyclic groups: "Need Math Tutoring? Calculus made easy!" etc.

Ok I guess not everyone will find that funny

[han]

helene_t, on Sep 18 2007, 04:23 PM, said:

(why does it think that I need a facelift?)

Yeah! And why does it think I need a dictionairy?

[han]

cherdano, on Sep 18 2007, 06:12 PM, said:

The funniest ones for me were those that always showed up when I was looking at the e-mail exchange with my collaborator on computing Hodge integrals on moduli spaces of twisted stable maps to classifying stacks of cyclic groups: "Need Math Tutoring? Calculus made easy!" etc.

Ok I guess not everyone will find that funny

Yeah I don't get the joke. What's a stack of cyclic groups?

[matmat]

yeah... don't search for help on the wonderful typesetting scripting tool called LaTeX

[helene_t]

matmat, on Sep 19 2007, 05:09 AM, said:

yeah... don't search for help on the wonderful typesetting scripting tool called LaTeX

ha-ha, I've had that one as well.

[Trumpace]

Hannie, on Sep 18 2007, 10:07 PM, said:

cherdano, on Sep 18 2007, 06:12 PM, said:

The funniest ones for me were those that always showed up when I was looking at the e-mail exchange with my collaborator on computing Hodge integrals on moduli spaces of twisted stable maps to classifying stacks of cyclic groups: "Need Math Tutoring? Calculus made easy!" etc.

Ok I guess not everyone will find that funny

Yeah I don't get the joke. What's a stack of cyclic groups?

That is why it is funny... LOL

People who talk of Hodge Integrals on blah.. don't need no freaking calculus tutor...

[Al_U_Card]

Hannie, on Sep 18 2007, 10:07 PM, said:

Yeah I don't get the joke. What's a stack of cyclic groups?

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