Apparently British Petroleum has purchased the search term "oil spill" so that the first link will take readers directly the their own website so that they can convince everyone of all the wonderful things they are doing to clean up the spill.
Here is the article.
I tested it and it's true. Here's a screen shot:
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9 comments:
Thanks for this. I wonder what they're going to buy next. Pelicans, Louisiana, ocean...?
Bloody BP. Believe me, they're just as hated on this side of the ocean.
OMG. Are you effing kidding me?...
I have no words for this.
This is how Google stays in business. Otherwise it'd be $0.01 per search word for us to Google "oil spill."
And I don't care if they are "British" Petroleum -- I still blame Canada!
;)
- Eric
?!?!?!
Sorry, I can't even find words to describe what I think of BP doing this, except ?!?!?!!??! (and I'm being polite!)
:-)
Take care
x
Okay that is just....yeah, I have no polite words. lol.
Yikes! That's ridiculous. I didn't know you could buy search terms. I can think of a few better uses for their money.
DISCLAIMER: I'm not condoning anything they've done, but....
I just gotta say I didn't know this sort of thing was possible and from a marketing / damage control standpoint, it was a ingenious idea.
In the end, though, won't it backfire? Most of us are not stupid and will find a way to get at the truth regardless.
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