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'Why not try nude female midgets?' says Microsoft Adcenter

Mark

I want whatever 389 is 

Paris Hilton

They're so exhausted/out of control after it they can't even type any more!

um gorw jfosf woomhama.

(because that's what I say when I get my clarinet played by PH!)

Niall

Duck Porn 

Dead Vulture

Having seen a documentry on the mating habits of ducks, which includes multiple males hoping on one female and occasionally drowning her. I can only imgaine the extreme nature of their porn. best not to go there.

Kevin Whitefoot

Good to see my home town in the limelight 

Coat

You mean that "dogging swindon" didn't attract you Andy?

Seems to be a strong connection with rugby. I wonder if this is a coincidence?

Coat or Paris? Decisions, decisions. Have to toss for it.

(A coin, you dirty minded person!)

Gordon Pryra

This explains why Micosoft's search is bobins 

If they rate the "Watford Hare Krishna Temple" as Sports_&_Recreation or Hunting, this may explain why no one bothers using their search,

And presumably, why no one is going to give them any cash to advertise on thier rubbish system.

Incidently, how much would Google charge for me to have the duck porn keyword? (And rest assured, I will be typing that in when I get home from work O.o)

Kev Beeley

Well 

Coat

I fully expect the entire list to be bought by eBay and/or Tesco before the end of the week

Anonymous Coward

Hare Krishna Temple Watford 

How does one monetize that exactly? And where's the synergy between that and the sport of Rugby?

Watch out Google - not.

Anonymous Coward

Duck porn 

Coat

What's the difference between kinky and perverted?

Kinky is when you use a feather

Perverted is when you use the whole duck

Stephen Stagg

Ooh, sue Microsoft 

so, the advertising term 'Under 16 Nude' has been 'recently used' has it? (line 4035). If it's illegal to link to pirated music and videos, it must be illegal to link to illegal child porn content.

Of course, vulnerable children don't have the strong legal backing the likes of the MPAA have, but still.

Joe K

Yeesh 

Paris Hilton

I can only hope that its a slip of the keyboard that changed "fuck" into Duck.

If not, then the Internet is a far wierder place than i thought.

Scott

BOFH 

Coat

Please, please get the BOFH get a bean counter fired with Buck Porn. thats just to funny, sorry got to say it again Duck Porn still laughing now.

No Ducks where harmed in the writing of this comment.

Anonymous Coward

MS AdCenter 

Paris Hilton

just rang them today asking

1)

why its £5 to sign up in England but $5 elsewhere -

answer- "it's the rate of exchange"

2)

Why min ad price is 5 cents in US and 5p here

ans - nobody really gets an ad for 5 cents

3)

Your name

ans - william anchor

paris .. because of her CPC

Andy

Duck porn 

Googling for "duck porn" gets me 93,400 matches.

Michael H.F. Wilkinson

No gay duck necrophilia? 

Coat

That even got an Ig Nobel prize

see

http://improbable.com/ig/ig-pastwinners.html

http://www.nmr.nl/nmr/pages/showPage.do?itemid=1930&instanceid=16

as for 389: perl before or after RSA encryption?

jeremy

auto bidding like google... 

Alert

So if MS had a similar "Use up any left overs of your ad budget on stuff you didn't ask for" system like google, could we expect that some of these might automatically get bought up (because you obviously wanted that - [we know better than you])... when did you last check that your google ads dont appear when you type in Duck Porn??

Anonymous Coward

@Joe K 

Or Rule #34 on Count Duckula?

Reptar

yes plees 

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Plese sen me linkz 4 duck porn. i wil trade linkz 4 mouse bdsm.

Pete

the real questions are 

... why did they think you'd be interested in those particular titles?

>These keywords are actual terms recently used by your customers

and what exactly do you do for your "customers"?

Mattyod

Wish I wasn't at work 

I'm strangely interested to know what on earth a search for "Duck porn" returns.

Mark

re: Duck porn 

Nah, perverted is when you light up a cigarette for the Duck afterwards...

Secretgeek

“vn b m gn mbnmncbm xbc bcv 0 vfkmjirhtfnkj nb b x bmnx bv” 

Happy

I think you'll find that was amanfromMars' last search.

Anonymous Coward

Duck Porn on YouTube 

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naughty threesome - kind of funny (and safe for work)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t33neiY9L_A

DAN*tastik

Confession 

Dead Vulture

The search for *n b m gn mbnmncbm xbc bcv 0 vfkmjirhtfnkj nb b x bmnx bv* originated from my computer. I forgot to cover my keyboard. I was playing with my duck. The duck was running away from me. The duck ended up on the keyboard.

I will make sure it doesn't happen anymore. I don't want my duck to accidentally type www.live.com on my keyboard again.

I think I'll drawn my duck ( I chose the closest icon I could find )

Mycho

Nude female bodybuilders 

Um... I don't think that one was me.

Zmodem

lamers 

it should be dogging swindon picnic area just outside of swindon

Lupus

vn b m gn mbnmncbm xbc bcv 0 vfkmjirhtfnkj nb b x bmnx bv 

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I don't know about you but "vn b m gn mbnmncbm xbc bcv 0 vfkmjirhtfnkj nb b x bmnx bv" is now added to my obfuscation addon.

Michael H.F. Wilkinson

vn b m gn mbnmncbm xbc bcv 0 vfkmjirhtfnkj nb b x bmnx bv 

Alien

that's just a very lame insider joke used among Brockian Ultracricketers

Sheesh, how often have I not heard that one when some white mouse scored a 6.

Gilleain Torrance

google : 1, microsoft : 0 

Dead Vulture

A search for "vn b m gn mbnmncbm xbc bcv 0 vfkmjirhtfnkj nb b x bmnx bv" on google.com now brings up this article.

A search on live.com brings up "no results".

Clear winner : google.

Thad

DAN*tastik 

Coat

"I think I'll drawn my duck ".

I think you mean, "I think I'll *drown* my duck.

Drawn is the past tense.

Mine's the one with all the rejection slips from comics in the pocket.

Anonymous Coward

RE: “vn b m gn mbnmncbm xbc bcv 0 vfkmjirhtfnkj nb b x bmnx bv” 

Dead Vulture

Oh, I do searches like that all the time.

When the PHB stress me out by pressing me to complete a project that would take a year to complete in a week.

I get angry and frustrated, and bang on the keyboard at google's main page.

Dead vulture, because I wish the PHB was.

Tim Bates

I think Microsoft need the FCC's "list of words" 

Alert

Krusty: I could even tell the FCC to take a hike. Look at this list of words they won't let me say on the air. (Hands Bart a piece of paper)

Bart: Aww! All the good ones. Hmm, I never even heard of number nine.

Krusty: That's two-ing thirteen while she's eleven-ing your five.

Bart: Can I keep this?

Krusty: Sure, no twelve off my ass.

Mycho

@google 1 : microsoft 0 

Whereas Yahoo lists Andy's blog above this article.

Martin Maloney

WARNING!!! 

Dead Vulture

Duck Porn

No Peking

Anonymous Coward

I got youtube Donald Duck porn 

Linux

Joe K;yes the internet is a far weirder place than it has any right to be.

nukemdomis

Duck Porn ain't so bad 

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I wish I could say that they were trying to spell "duck pond" or "*uck porn", but unfortunately some kinky people were most likely looking for some fresh ideas.

Try owning a site with the name "horsebanger" in the URL and then you'll really see some unbelievable stuff. I've seen far more repulsive search queries and keywords

Anonymous Coward

nude female midget 

Gates Horns

I'm planning on naming my new race car "the little nude female midget", don't anybody bid on that one. It's mine! Yes it's a small car, I don't have a big budget!

Some free advise to Microsoft. Yes I give advise for free! Stop shooting yourself in the foot. It's never worked before so stop doing it! HAHAHA

Adrian Tritschler

Just had to try... 

Gates Halo

Results 1 - 2 of 2 for "“vn b m gn mbnmncbm xbc bcv 0 vfkmjirhtfnkj nb b x bmnx bv". (0.40 seconds)

Anonymous Coward

Title 

Would rather choke my chicken than drown my duck. Or should that be the other way round?