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Silly Advertising
By bk | December 27, 2007 21:08
My lovely wife pointed out that sometimes there are Google Ads on this blog that don’t really fit the content. I put some hopefully unobtrusive Google Ads here in hopes that I can cover the hosting costs for this site (they don’t), while not interfering with the content (hopefully I succeeded there).
What cracks me up is what ads actually end up on the site. It reflects the lack of semantics in search technology - or maybe just how capable Google is at parsing content, and just how stupid the religious advertisers are in paying for advertisements that fall on blind eyes. Anyway, from time to time I get curious about some of these advertisements that show up, and I’m not supposed to click on them (Google TOS) sometimes you do need to know who is advertising on your site. Fortunately, there are ways to find out. Recently an ad ad proclaiming “So Simple, Any Child Can Understand So Complex, No Atheist Can Solve” which leads to a page with little content, but asking for an email address appears.
For my money, anything so simple a child can solve probably isn’t worth too much - I’ve never seen a child to anything real amazing (other than absolutely amazing loads of crap in a diaper), and certainly nothing intellectually incredible.
I wish I could find out just how much they are paying to get this silly ad on my site - but I’m not going to stop them - click along and see what you think.
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