Google blocks Advertising searches

Its Google! They’re screwing us all!

Seriously funny story. :-) Go read the whole thing. :-) I’m sure many IT Support and Admin folk out there will relate :-)

The president could get a bit emotional at times, and Neal had no idea why he was this time, but whatever the reason, it was important. Every employee — all nine of them — were huddled in his little office, awkwardly watching him as he yelled out swear words, grunted random advertising terms, and scowled in disappointment. It was a somewhat familiar sight, watching the president like that. He was steaming furious and on the verge of taking his keyboard, chomping off the spacebar, breaking the whole thing across his knee, and then smashing his head through his monitor, parading it around as he stomped out of his office. Neal dared to ask what was wrong.

“It’s f—ing Google!” he screamed, “they’re f—ing trying to put me out of f—ing business. They’re screwing me, you’re screwing me, everyone is f—ing screwing me!”

Stunned by his words and the fury in his voice, Neal paused a moment before a eye roll with a wry smile and then asked again. The president scowled at him, but went on to explain.

Everything started with his first search of the day: “war banners.” The news reported that the White House edited out some war banners from its videos and he was curious to learn more about the story. But Google would have none of that: it completely ignored his query. It’s not that it returned “zero results,” it’s that it returned nothing. No matter how many times he clicked the button, it just sat on Google’s home page. Every other search worked just fine.

^{The Great Google Banner Ad Conspiracy – They Daily WTF}