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These may be the most offensive Google Ads ever seen. Spotted in two separate incidents next to stories about the Mumbai attacks on the site IBN Live, they're a typical example of the tactlessness of automated ad targeting systems.
We've seen Google ads go wrong before, of course, but do you recall a worse slip-up in recent memory?
We know it's not Google's intent to offend, nor their fault that these mismatches happen...and yet we've got to ask our readers: surely something can be done to prevent instances like these?
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[top image: Notes from Earth, bottom image: Sanyam / Flickr]