International territory dispute fight using Adwords!
July 29, 2005 by Christina Jones
Filed under Computers
Bizarre. But I suppose Google will be happy with the publicity….
Reuters:A spat between Canada and Denmark over a tiny Arctic island has moved to the Internet, where a Canadian man is dueling an unknown opponent over who really owns the disputed lump of rock. The two have placed online ads about which country controls the 1.3 square kilometer (half a square mile) Hans Island, situated between Canada’s Ellesmere Island and Greenland, which belongs to Denmark. Toronto author Rick Broadhead said he bought an advertisement on Internet search engine Google after spotting a Danish ad that said “Does Hans sound Canadian? Danish name, Danish island read more>
Independent Sources has done a roundup of Canadian and Danish bloggers on this most unusal case. We call it: CRISIS in the ARCTIC.
http://independentsources.com/2005/07/31/hans-island-spat-roundup/