The googletestad Phenomenon

• Posted by Badi Jones on August 13th, 2005 - Comment on this Post »

This is one of the strangest things I’ve seen. It seems that the keyword [googletestad] is number 34 on the top 1000 searches (from wordTracker short term).

No one seems to know what googletestad means, but it hasn’t stopped the eager content scraper / spammy / adsense sites from profiting from it.

Just search for [googletestad] and click some of the top results. You’ll see what I mean.

One point of interest is that the number one Google ad is one from google that reads:

Congratulations!
This is a family safe ad.
All systems are go!
www.google.com

And links to a search for [family safe].

The ad reminded me of a post I recently read in a forum somewhere by a guy who was having problems with kind of questionable ads showing up on his family friendly site.

Im probably wrong, but id guess that this may have to do with Google having problems filtering out non family friendly results from adsense ads.

Whatever it is that’s caused the initial increase in queries for the term [googletestad] is being overshadowed by all the hype its gotten lately. I guess its partly my fault now for writing this article.

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