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Google, you’re allowed to err but not this sort of mistakes

 

I have been looking for a laptop quite some time now and reading reviews of various models. I wanted to know about HP’s Pavilion notebooks, went ahead and googled for ‘HP Pavilion’. To my surprise, on the result page I saw an Ad for ‘HP Pavilion’ with product description of one of the Dell’s models. I followed the link, which took me to Dell’s product page. First off, I was looking for a HP model, but Google took me to Dell’s site – possibly the worst user experience, secondly I don’t know who is being charged for the ad? Is it going to be HP or Dell? Will HP pay for an ad that actually promotes Dell? I believe this is a serious issue, which misleads the branding and it directly affects the parties hosting the ads.  Google, there are good chances for you to get sued for this sort of completely irrelevant and misleading ads. Up until now, I believed Google’s ad platform is much better and appropriate than any others on the globe, I did not really expect this sort of glitches from Google. Hey googlers, have not you ever noticed these glitches?

Here is the snapshot of what I saw…