Turner Prize for SERP art?

Inspired by the idea of ASCII art in Google Adwords I decided to have ago myself in the SERPs. Unfortunately I'm not much of an artist and with just 2 lines to work with your scope for a masterpiece is limited!
Ascii art in the SERPs the future?
Anything that makes your Search results stand out is a good thing but perhaps this is not the way to do it. Any budding artists willing to give it a go could this be the ultimate test of ASCII artists?

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Comment by Jansie Blom Subscribed to comments via email
2008-01-15 17:07:49
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It’s beautiful man. brings tears to my eyes. like monet, or something.

ok, ok, it’s better than anything i’ve ever done.

 
Comment by Tim Nash
2008-01-15 18:03:07

lol ok so elephants have in fact drawn better, but that wasn’t really the point :) I’m sure a talented ascii artist could have some real fun. Sadly I’m not an ascii artist anyone know one?

 
Comment by Jansie Blom Subscribed to comments via email
2008-01-15 18:30:30
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you’ve found your calling T. ASCII artist. wonder what that screenprint would reach on ebay? maybe if you sell it included in a packet of fish and chips, it might reach quite a price!

ok, so how do you do it though?

Comment by Tim Nash
2008-01-15 18:45:12

It’s done through the meta description tag, and then counting number of characters in the description.

Interestingly initially I had the house at the beginning of the description but for some reason Google ignored the / if at the front of the description.

 
 
Comment by Jansie Blom Subscribed to comments via email
2008-01-15 18:50:15
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oh it’s a house? err, ok…

 
Comment by Tim Nash
2008-01-16 00:17:23

I think thing is a better description :)

 

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