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On the Occasional Quirkiness of Google Ads (Or, Should Angela Merkel Worry?)

This in from friend and e.politics contributor Burt Edwards a few days back:

OK, so it’s a slow Sunday morning and I’m doing my version of reading the morning paper (which for me is checking my regular papers online as well as a couple of other sources like Google News). And as it so happens, there’s a story I’m curious about in the International Herald Tribune (IHT) entitled: “Germany rejects calls for Eastern Europe bailout.”

Now the story, it turns out, was pretty short and to be honest not all that interesting. But when I looked down the page I saw the following Google ads (see below) and THAT was interesting. [This beats the time I was buying tickets to a jazz concert online @ Ticketmaster and the verification word was "Aryan" -- true story ...]

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