I know… that reads like pure link bait.

It’s not.

It’s a serious question.

I’m not talking about everything Google does; they’re not the worlds richest company for nothing. I’m talking about the Google AdWords platform.

Here’s why I ask the question.

Last week I launched a small new campaign for a client.

Following best practices I added two ads to the campaign and set them to "Rotate Indefinitely: Show lower performing ads more evenly with higher performing ads and do not optimise".

There is a caveat below this option which states : "Not recommended for most advertisers" - but I like living on the edge.

In a world where we share and like almost anything on a whim, we forget that once we "put it out there" it may, like some strange new mutation, suddenly have a heartbeat, and then a whole life of its own which is out of our control like an unruly teenager.

@Cella_ was probably ill advised to post this tweet just a day before she started a new job at Jet Pizza "Ew I start this f*ck *ss job tomorrow" with a row of thumbs down..... Let's think for a moment why she might have tweeted this is the first place. Let's face it, working at a pizza joint is not a particularly glamorous job. I get that. Maybe she was putting the job down so as not to be thought as someone who might apsire to working on a pizza joint. Who knows. In any event, I'm sure she did not expect the reaction from the Jet Pizza manager.

I love my adopted country.

And I love the fact that Spain is considered among the leading powers in the western World.

But I am also a marketer. And, moreover, an English marketer who has had to deal with a number of situations over the years where Spanish clients have been upset that I have prevented them from publishing or printing something that does not meet my English standards. With marketing you have to get things right.

I'm pretty good at math.

I can't do calculus or anything really complicated, but I consider myself to be one of those people that are "good with numbers". At the very least I know that $163.27 divided by 1 should be $163.27.

So I was understandably confused when Google reported that it was actually only $61.53....