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@achewood Crime drama, 1980: Magnum PI. 2005: NUMB3RS. One based on smiling and helicopters, one on showcasing higher math. Explain discrepancy.

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Truth in advertising?
« on: February 01, 2010, 06:53:22 pm »
I'm wondering how Nextag would carry through on the implied promise

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Re: Truth in advertising?
« Reply #1 on: February 01, 2010, 07:37:14 pm »
Did you click??
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Re: Truth in advertising?
« Reply #2 on: February 01, 2010, 10:13:34 pm »
Heck no - but I suspect its a little advertising gimmick tied to some google search terms I did while noodling with the pet gems thing - "grams carbon human body" or somesuch (9.5% by mass, apparently).  I think the program just took my search terms, parsed them somehow and dropped it into "Best value for <x> <y>."  If I had been looking for giraffe placenta it would have tried to hook me up.
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Re: Truth in advertising?
« Reply #3 on: February 01, 2010, 11:12:08 pm »
Yes, indeed. But how could you resist finding out whether they actually had any search results for it?

the Pet Gems thing was a Google ad in the first place but I can't recall if there was an entertaining reason it gave it to me. Sometimes they are amusingly off base, which I find reassuring. Obviously there is really no one at Google reading my Gmail.

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