
BP Snaps Up Search Terms for Positive PR Spin
BP, which unleashed the worst oil spill in U.S. history in the Gulf of Mexico, has purchased key search terms from Google, Bing and Yahoo to ensure that searchers see its efforts to help however it can in the catastrophe it created. Do a search on terms such as "BP" "Deepwater Horizon" and "oil spill" on Google, Yahoo and Microsoft Bing these days and you're bound to see a sponsored link to BP Plc's Gulf of Mexico response Website.
The company that unleashed the worst oil spill in U.S. history in the Gulf of Mexico has purchased key search terms from search engines to ensure that searchers see its efforts to help however it can in the catastrophe it created.