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ASCII Art Adwords Worm

Title: ASCII Art Adwords Worm
URL: http://www.rimmkaufman.com/rkgblog/2009/05/31/ascii-art-adwords-worm/
Printed: March 17, 2010
Source: The Rimm-Kaufman Group Blog, info@rimmkaufman.com

Sighted: an ASCII nightcrawler on AdWords.

adwords-worm

ASCII art is disallowed by Google advertising policies, and such ads get filtered pretty quickly.

Nonetheless, the worms.com ad gave me a laugh.

adwords-worm-200pct

Other ASCII art sightings: an EKG trace; the word “collective”; blocks; and rental cars (possibly fake)

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