Funny AdWords Message

Last Update: August 19, 2010

This was posted as an announcement on my AdWords account today and was worth a good giggle:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document" /> <meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 12" /> <meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 12" /> <link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:\\Users\\ERIKPO~1\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\msohtmlclip1\\01\\clip_filelist.xml" /> <link rel="themeData" href="file:///C:\\Users\\ERIKPO~1\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\msohtmlclip1\\01\\clip_themedata.thmx" /> <link rel="colorSchemeMapping" href="file:///C:\\Users\\ERIKPO~1\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\msohtmlclip1\\01\\clip_colorschememapping.xml" /><!--[if gte mso 9]> <xml> Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]> <xml> </xml><![endif]--> <style><!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:"Cambria Math"; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:1; mso-generic-font-family:roman; mso-font-format:other; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:0 0 0 0 0 0;} @font-face {font-family:Calibri; panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:swiss; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:-1610611985 1073750139 0 0 159 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-unhide:no; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; margin-top:0in; margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:10.0pt; margin-left:0in; line-height:115%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} span.announcementmessage {mso-style-name:announcementmessage; mso-style-unhide:no;} .MsoChpDefault {mso-style-type:export-only; mso-default-props:yes; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} .MsoPapDefault {mso-style-type:export-only; margin-bottom:10.0pt; line-height:115%;} @page WordSection1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.WordSection1 {page:WordSection1;} --></style><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0in; mso-para-margin-right:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0in; line-height:115%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;}</style><![endif]-->

On January 1, 2005, AdWords system will be unavailable from approximately 1:00 AM to January 1, 2015 1:00 AM Mountain Time due to system maintenance. Please note that your campaigns will continue to run normally during this short downtime. We apologize for any inconvenience.

 

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Louise M. Premium
I think the code on your blog is here because you copy/pasted the google message so you therefore pasted its styling tags with it. When you write your post and have something to paste, click on "source" and paste your piece of text there then go back to "design" and change the style if you want. I think it'll work. :)
I figured it was a typo. Never occurred to me to think it was anything malicious. But I'd think Google would write better than that. Oh well. Looks like my blog is picking up lines of weird code again. It keeps coming back no matter how often I edit it out.
Louise M. Premium
oh wow. lol That's weird and funny indeed! Someone else posted this on the google forum, wondering what it was but got no answers for now. Hope it's not a hacking message!
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