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So we get that Google's really keen to gobble a little more market share from its rivals in China, and one of the most ingenious ways they've figured to do so is their free mp3 download service. We applaud that. What we don't applaud is their ads promoting the service, which seems to have taken the DIY ethic of viral videos to mean "crappy flash creations evoking the earlier parts of this millennium." Add that to Chinese history tales and you get G.cn's newest ad rush:

Mark MacKinnon, Beijing Bureau Chief of the Globe and Mail wrote about this screenshot, sent to him by his Chinese friend of the most searched terms on google.cn during May 19, 2009. What looks like a string of bad arithmetic is... well, we're sure you can guess. It seems that all the efforts of the 50cent army and net nanny can't dampen the curiosity of certain internet-going segments of the population.