Kayak Brings Back Advertisement Banned in the UK


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Damn, if the UK's Advertising Standards Authority can't take a joke … Meanwhile, Kayak's Brain Surgery ad is obviously working and that's why the company brought it back.
Kayak's decision didn't take brain surgery -- or maybe it did. The Connecticut-headquartered travel metasearch company has once again started airing in the U.S. its Brain Surgery advertisement (embedded below) that was banned in the U.K. starting last year. In the ad, a surgeon conducts brain surgery on a patient and manipulates his brain so the patient taps keys on a laptop and searches various travel site