Very Strange Ad

Has this happened to anyone else?

[travisbickle]

I just started using adsense a few weeks ago and was on my site (education related) and when I looked over at the ads I saw an ad for a school but the copy underneath the underlined heading said something like this:

"teacher arrested for raping student"

I couldn't believe it when I saw it. When I refreshed the page it didn't come back. Has this sort of thing happened to anyone else?

[Nikke]

Couldn't it be one of those newspaper ads?

Right now I cannot remember what paper it is, but I have seen one campaign that seem to be built on current news items.

[travisbickle]

I don't think so. It had a school name on the underlined top section.

[diamondgrl]

Sounds like someone wanting to extract revenge on the school, perhaps, by publicizing this.

[travisbickle]

So you are saying someone hacked into the Google database and changed the wording?

[arrowman]

No, I guess she's saying someone may be advertising for a hate page.

[diamondgrl]

I doubt very sincerely that someone has hacked Google. I think instead that someone on a vendetta of some kind (wholly legitimate or half-baked) decided to use their Adwords account to "advertise" an uncomfortable truth they wanted to be more well-known.