Canada and Denmark using Google as Battleground

TedRiot writes "Canada and Denmark are fighting over Hans Island using Google as battleground. A quick search of 'hans island' revealed a paid advertisement with the banner headline: 'Hans Island is Greenland. Greenland natives have used the island for centuries.' The ad was linked to the Danish government's foreign affairs web page with the letter condemning Graham's visit. Toronto resident Rick Broadhead placed a Google ad and said the Canadian government needs to get with the times." Reuters has coverage as well.

Comments

Google Ad

[justasecond]

I wonder if the publicity (and slashdotting) forced the Google ad. over it's daily limit? (For those who don't know, when you buy a Google ad. you specify how much you want to pay for clicks per day -- go over that limit and your ad. doesn't appear.)

Hmmm...now to "research" the vaginainstute.com ad...

Re:Google Ad

[nocomment]

That might be. When the Article was first posted i tried it (there were zero comments then) and I saw the ad, clicked blah blah. Now nothing.

For those interested here's the URL.

Northwest Passage Skirmish

[Doc Ruby]

This battle is not merely over tiny little Hans Island. It is part of the positioning of Arctic countries, including Canada and Denmark (via Greenland), for access to the Arctic Sea. The Sea is now clearly destined to remain navigable for most, if not all, of the year, due to Greenhouse warming that has melted over 40% of the previous Summer ice. At 9% melt per decade, already begun, many ohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_passagef us will live to see the European "holy grail" of the Northwest Passage finally gained. The more national territory around the circle, the easier it will be for ships to travel under that nation's "protection". Subject to its rules and taxes, of course.

Google Map

[molo]

In case you are wondering where this is.

http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=80.827952,-66.64718 6&spn=0.015675,0.101435&hl=en

-molo