Thu 12 Jan 2006
Sri Lankan women, for sale online!
Posted by me under Blogroll , Hacks , Humor , Sri Lanka , Weird[4] Comments
Good news for all my Sri Lankan friends in North America. Are you feeling lonely? Do you wish you had your very own Sri Lankan Woman? Well thanks to a special offer from Yahoo and Target, you can buy your very own Sri lanka Woman, online! Best of all, you can save!
So, rush off to Target, and get clicking.
Background
A search for Sri Lankan Women on Yahoo (don’t ask) yeids this:

Closeup of ad

The actual search:
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=sri+lankan+women&fr=FP-tab-web-t&toggle=1&cop=&ei=UTF-8
Note, this search probably may not yeild above results, depending on where you are, hopefully Yahoo will notice and fix this error!
Explanation: Context sensitive search gone wrong.
I guess we can summarize that Yahoo hasn’t perfected their context sensitive search. But look on the bright side, at least they have context insensitive search
Trivia
1. For those of you who don’t live in North America, Target is a friendly shopping chain famous for their dog, and their innovative advertising. Sadly, wiki doesn’t appear to have a page on them.
2. The Target Dog is a supposedly an English bull terrier
http://askdoglady.com/archives/bones_social_creatures/000096.html
Notes:
Yahoo, Target, The Target Dog, and all colors, logos, ideas, theories, etc are copyright their respective companies. Blah Blah.