Google Drops Lingerie & Adult Shopping Ads For Christmas Searches

Nov 27, 2019 - 7:21 am 9 by
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Google Lingerie

Yesterday I was doing some searches to see when the holiday decorations come up (I do weird searches all the time) and up came Google Shopping Ads that were a bit adult in nature. Specifically selling lingerie and adult oriented costumes. Yes, for the search term [christmas]. A lot of others were seeing the same or similar ads as well.

Google seems to have removed these ads now, which is a good thing. But here is what some of the results looked like:

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Google Christmas Lingerie Result Mobile

Do you let your kids search for Christmas searches?

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