Ok, so "Don't be evil" is quite thoroughly dead now...

[wednesday42]

If you're searching for data on the Gulf disaster, be careful not to click on a sponsored ad site disguised as actual news.

BP Buys 'Oil' Search Terms to Redirect Users to Official Company Website

Comments

[redbarnus]

It's so disgusting, it's difficult to even contemplate.

Just got back from driving round trip to Virginia over the weekend, and each time I passed a BP station I thought, "You SUCK!"

[wednesday42]

I have a hard time not thumping the people I see buying gas at BP stations. Granted, the damn things are everywhere, but by and large if you don't punish bad behavior, it doesn't change. Dx

[winterlion]

*grr* I hate propaganda-marketing (but I hate spam more than that).

aside: ask toolbar is a trojan. It's so emphatically not safe it isn't funny.

[wednesday42]

Argh. Good to know about the toolbar. Editing to add the warning above (or, if you know of another search engine I could post, I can just switch it out.)

[winterlion]

Pretty much all toolbars are spyware - but that one specifically gets routinely hijacked by viruses. And this propaganda/marketing technique has - according to what I've read - been so widespread in the US on all levels (INCLUDING school textbooks) that people have a hard time telling truth from propaganda. In many ways that's probably key to the growth of the religious extremists

[pelaithaliel]

This is outrageous. I've been sitting here for a solid minute thinking of what to say about this, but all I keep thinking is "that's outrageous" and variations of that. Sad, sad, sad state of affairs. I wish I could take some time off to go down and help.

[blythechild]

Here, have a laugh at their expense instead...

[wednesday42]

Y'know, that wouldn't be nearly as funny if it weren't so damn close to what's actually happening...