AdWords and their foibles

So most people who care about such things know that Google Mail uses the Google “AdWords” scripts to supply links to websites related to text in your e-mail. A strange side effect of this is when you’re looking in your junk mail folder (which is called “Spam” by default): at the top of the directory listing, you’ll see a link that says something like: Spam casserole, 35-40 minutes, serves 4.

This probably demonstrates something about the use-mention distinction, or about why text-searching isn’t the omega of knowledge management. I just thought it was funny.

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