Google douchebaggery! Threatened over Sarah Palin Post!
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So we did our cute little Sarah Palin post last Friday — announcing that she’s crazysexyshotguncool, Lisa Left Eye Lopes meets Ann Coulter. Ya know, a dumb little satirical, humor type o’ post. We received some pics, we all had fun, blah blah blah. Many outlets, blogs, papers, magazines reposted the pics and article, sometimes with credit (but usually not, Huffpost, Time…).
Some of the photos found their way into the Taiwanese Press (above) and the UK’s notorious ‘News of the World’ who did give credit and link (article). We also received some stern emails from the Republican party, and black vans are circling our block, but we’re still standing.
Well, after Sarah Palin’s speech at the RNC, our little server went put-put-BOOM after 20k pervs went out googling. But, I think we’re back and running normally. So our Fake Photoshop contest is going strong — we’ve received about 50 entries — continue to send them in!
In checking the comments, people still don’t know if we’re Pro or Anti-Sarah Palin. As we said in our original post:
Who cares about Republicans vs Democrats. We’re too dumb for all this political talk. We just know one thing, Sarah Palin is kinda hot. Yeah, we’re all nodding, we’d tap it. A lot hotter than frackin’ Joe “Jerry Van Dyke” Biden. Sarah Palin, John McCain’s Vice President pick for the Republicans, is totally
MILFyGILFy. Just look at her, ya know it, she’s totally naughty, kinky, and takes no bullshit.
Since then, “professional” media is following our direction and basically saying the same thing. Sexy don’t know how to spell misogyny. Will we vote for her? That’s another story…
Regardless, the Douchebags at Google Adsense sent us the following note this afternoon. This is, of course, ridiculous. Many major news outlets have published the same copy, links, images, etc. Google is being pressured to remove this — as right now we’re at the top stop if “Sarah Palin Naked” is googled. There’s much worse out there, especially with Adwords. As we’re in the #1 spot, Google is basically telling us to take down the pictures or else… Who is pressuring Google?! Hmmm…
Anyone want to recommend an alternative to Adsense? Please comment below.
Next fake Photoshop contest — Larry Page and Sergey Brin giving each other the goatse.
PS. Chrome Sucks.
PSS. Update Sept 5th — the page we were referring to has been removed from the top spot in Google’s ORGANIC listings. Double Google douchebaggery. It had been at the #1 spot for “Sarah Palin Naked” in google since last Friday. Yet this morning, it’s gone. Funny, pages that link or feature our post on the Sarah Palin Photoshop contest are in the top spots.
Subject: Google AdSense
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Sarah Palin Contest Pics here!