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International territory dispute fight using Adwords!

by admin on July 29th, 2005

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>

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