December 08, 2003

I Am an Advertisement for Philosophy the Gingerbread Man

Posted by Brian

This is a little bit freaky. Right now if you do a Google search for Weatherson you get in the sidebar two ‘sponsored links’, one for Philosophy Body Care, and the other for Philosophy the Gingerbread Man. (No I’m not making this up. Not even I have that twisted an imagination.)

I thought this must be because there was a lot of instances of the word ‘philosophy’ in my pages and the companies in question pay to be displayed alongside for any such search. But I can’t find a single other philosopher such that searching for them brings up the ads in question. Searching for ‘philosophy’ does, but that’s the only search I found that works. There’s a disturbingly high probability (i.e. >0.001) that the companies in question actually paid to be displayed alongside a Google search for my name as such.

Thanks (I guess) to Benj Hellie for alerting me to my new role in life.

Posted on December 8, 2003 05:52 AM UTC
Comments

Here is a site describing an appropriate role for Daniel Davies.
http://www.chips-tv.com/Guide/Episode/516.shtml

Posted by Cryptic Ned · December 8, 2003 06:49 AM

When I clicked, I got an ad for the Philosophy cookbook. Sadly, that recipe for deontological brownies remain elusive.

Posted by pathos · December 8, 2003 03:14 PM

Well, Now you are coming up next to “Philosophy holiday kisses”. I’m not really sure what those are, but I’ll be sure to ask for some myself.

Posted by matt · December 8, 2003 03:37 PM

It might have something to do with Philosophy the brand. See philosophy.com — they make stuff like “Strawberry shortcake shampoo.”

Posted by J · December 8, 2003 06:39 PM
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