Google—or is it Alphabet?—has so many fingers in so many technologically-refined pies that it’s difficult to keep track sometime. So this Halloween, your friendly neighborhood search company would like to remind you what it’s all about.

Late last year Facebook announced that it was going to introduce ads into our news feeds. Well, they're here, but to soften the blow they're tagged as "featured" rather than "sponsored".

We're hardly the target audience for a pink phone and Lady Gaga-esque visuals, but Nokia's latest commercial does make me laugh. Or weep, when I remember that Nokia's share prices are at a 13year-low. [Reuters and Curious Brain via Adverblog]

Though it does depend on your standards of what is indeed edible. Made from "glutinous rice flour, water, salt, propylene glycol, FD&C colour and glycerine," the Volkswagen advert appeared in South Africa's AutoTrader magazine. [AdsoftheWorld via AdWeek via LitmanLive]

While this is one of those ads that leaves you scratching your head and wondering what exactly it is they're advertising (I think handwash? On Virgin flights?), it's forgiven because the entire ad was actually made in Photoshop. That's right—no Illustrator to animate those...germs?, just good ol' fashioned Photoshop.

Like the 2011 version of selling your forehead to an online casino company wielding a painful tattoo needle, Adzookie's offering to pay your mortgage for as long as you can put up with advertising their eyesore-inducing logo, as seen in the Photoshopped image above.

Let's face it: most of the time advertising blows. You have to wonder what's in it for you. Praise be to Caribou Coffee's advertising team then, which attached heating elements to a bus shelter roof. [Adrants via PSFK via OhGizmo]

After a Droid X was seen 'shopped with the iPhone's Google Maps in a Verizon ad, it should come as no surprise to see an advert of a BlackBerry Torch running Android and—gasp!—Motoblur.

This is one of the best series of adverts I've ever clapped eyes on. Last month, Lego Russia released a series of ads showing some of its popular sets made up to be, well, not what they're meant to be.

I asked Virgin Media, the UK ISP whose 100MB broadband's advertised in cheese in London, if I could lick their billboard. They said yes. I'm gonna refrain as I've got a cold, but that 110kg of cheese is awfully tempting.

We saw two videos a few weeks back when they leaked early, but a third (and better) ad has been released to hammer home the fact that WP7 owners will be using their phones less. It's a strange message, yes.

They'd obviously spunked a lotta money on the ad, which features a Gillian Anderson voiceover and appearance from famous English footballer/soccer-player Peter Crouch, but when it illustrates exploding kiddies it's no surprise that Sony wanted nothing to do with it.

Microsoft is no stranger to odd advertising. While I do get what they're trying to say with their two latest WP7 ads (showing the HTC Mondrian), the message still aims left of what they're trying to achieve.

The World Cup kicks off tomorrow, and ESPN has signed up three advertisers for its 3D channel. If you're watching South Africa Vs. Mexico, keep your eyes peeled for Sony, Gillette and Pixar adverts (if you own a 3DTV).

It must be puzzling, working for a perfume company and trying to figure out how to market it to internet users. Brazilian company Kaiak found the most amazing solution to show people just how good (I'm presuming) their cologne is.

Floppy-haired Justin Long has said in an interview with the AV Club that the 'Get A Mac' adverts "might be done...I think they're going to move on." Move on to more ads with disembodied hands and loud indie-pop?

Samsung's Omnia II handset was the first phone to feature Swype, the super-fast input method for texting. It's now officially the world's fastest way to text, breaking the Guinness World Record with five seconds to spare.