I feel stupid when I see a TV ad from ASK.com about “The Algorithm”. They don’t make sense to me. So the advertising makes me feel dumb and somewhere in there should be incentive to use the search engine?
Nope. That can’t be right.
Since so many people question the logic and message behind ASK’s ad campaign, I find I’m not alone. Many of you have no idea what the hell is going on either.
Cre8asiteforums’ members are all over this, in Ask’s Bizarre Bad Taste And Weird Ad Placement
The Unabomber killed 3 people and wounded more than 20 others. This is what Ask is now using as a marketing ploy? I’m totally disgusted.
The line in another version of the campaign: ‘The algorithm killed Jesus’.
Now there’s something about “half dressed women with swords”.





Kim, I don’t think that they’re targeting the intellectually elite such as yourself with those particular ads… they definitely look like they are aimed at the masses.
Comment by Michael VanDeMar — June 12, 2007 @ 5:30 pm