I am SOOOOO irritated by these stupid Google ads saying Democrat instead

[truthisfreedom]

of Democratic. WHY DO WE HAVE TO PUT UP WITH THEM ON OUR OWN SITE? It was a rovian plan to change the name of our party and every damned time i see Democrat Party I know that thugs are behind the text. The latest ad is this one:

Democrat Ringtone
Send this ringtone to your phone right now, at no charge!
dada-mobile.net

you can probably see it up there right now. DON'T DOWNLOAD A RINGTONE FROM THIS OBVIOUSLY REPUBLICANT-OPERATED WEBSITE.

[Posteritatis]

1. Paranoid much?

First, the ads I'm seeing are currently all travel-related.

Karl Rove isn't behind everything politically annoying in the universe, you know. A couple randomly-created (do some reading on how text ads work) Google text ads isn't going to "change the name" of the Democratic Party, and even if it did, dropping the suffix from the name isn't going to accomplish anything.

You don't need bottled oxygen to climb this particular molehill.

[Skittles]

2. sorry, it irritates me too

it is disrespectful

[Posteritatis]

4. It's not a deliberate thing

Nobody's saying "I want to rename the Democratic Party to the Democrat Party" or silly BS like that. With ads like these, they buy a variety of keywords, occasionally tie them to whatever they're selling, and the ads are assembled at random on site.

If someone bought the words Democrat, Democratic and Democracy, then those words will show up in ads - as the third of them did for one of my text ads right now. A human does not actually assemble a large chunk of these ads; they're genuinely automatically produced, not some evil republican plot to, uh, do something whose relevance I can't quite ferret out.

I'm serious; these things, as often as not, do not pass in front of human eyes before getting sent out. If you Google for various terms, you'll find some real doozies as far as text ads go.

Here's some examples to show you how nonsensical they can get. My personal favorite, back a few years when a certain movie was coming out:



This one was also weird enough to save:



Now and then I find one that I'd love to be true:



Some of the combinations will be annoying, yes (this one was right after the Boxing Day tsunami):



But if you actually look around at some of these things, you'll see that they're often way too nonsensical to be deliberate things. Folks need to calm down, in other words - this isn't some hideous plot, nobody's trying to push anything other than their product, and you aren't being harmed unless you simply don't like ads. Take a few minutes to see some of the more ridiculous ones you can find, and you'll be amused by them. These ain't people; they're computers massively flunking the Turing test.

[truthisfreedom]

5. hah! thanks for the fresh perspective. i just see "democrat party" in too

many "news" articles and it feels like a slap in the face every time it happens.

when we take back Congress this fall, i say we start forcing it back down their ridiculous throats.

but yeah, the ads, computer-generated, okay. got it. i'll quiet down now. 8^)

[Posteritatis]

9. Glad to help. ;)

On the other hand, what's to stop you from starting to talk about the Republic Party?

You know you have no choice, now. ;)

[Skittles]

7. I'm not saying it is deliberate, or a hideous plot

but there is no reason why it cannot be corrected

[Posteritatis]

8. That was mainly to the OP; sorry 'bout that

It can't be corrected without manually creating the ads at this point, though. I'm just thinking it really isn't something worth worrying about.

[gristy]

3. Both the name of our party and its mascot arose out of attempted insults

from our opposition. So my advice is to accept "Democrat" as an adjective with relish!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_%28United_States%29#Symbols_and_name

[LittleClarkie]

6. Donate and you can turn them off

Hee hee. I can't see a thing!