As you probably realize, I don’t see the same Google Adsense ads on this blog that you do. Supposedly, they are tailored to our respective interests.
Really, they are guided by a couple of things. First, there’s context, if I understand the process correctly. For instance, if we have a discussion here about gun control, I will see ads about concealed carry laws.
The inferences are also drawn from my browsing history. If I looked up a product on Amazon recently, I will get ads for that product on my blog.
But folks, I promise, I have no idea what I could possibly have been looking up that caused me to get these ads. I mean it. I’m puzzled. And a little embarrassed lest someone walk up behind me while I’m checking the blog.
These are just barely workplace-safe…
I’m trying to think whether I had “bad idea” in a headline recently. Did anyone use the word “cleavage,” and I’ve just forgotten it?
Have any of y’all been getting ads such as these — without, I mean, any obvious reason why?
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OK, that didn’t take long.
I just figured it out: I used the word “décolletage” in a post on Sept. 1.
That’s got to be it.
Wow, that Google Adsense is sensitive…
As Tom Sawyer said to Huck, “All right–I’m glad we found it out detective fashion; I wouldn’t give shucks for any other way.”
For whatever reason, a ton of conservative websites have those T shirt ads. One reason I don’t visit them, certainly not in a public environment.
In any event, even if I were in the market for these goods and/or services, the ads would be useless to me. I am strictly forbidden to click on any ads on my own site. If Google caught me doing it, they wouldn’t let me carry the ads anymore.
I’m also forbidden to urge any of y’all to click on them. Which seems to me a departure from a century of advertising. Think how many times you’ve heard someone say, “Check out our advertisers…” I’ve done it myself, back when I was first taking ads.
The folks at Google seem to believe strongly that all clicks must reflect totally spontaneous, genuine interest…
Well, you also get the sex offender notices, so….
I think it may be because you always try to keep abreast of what’s going on in the news.
It just occurred to me — that’s a T-shirt ad, and what she’s wearing isn’t even a T-shirt!
For some reason, I didn’t notice that the first few times I saw it…
There are words in those ads? I never noticed. I guess I must have been distracted by something.
Cleavage cleavage cleavage cleavage cleavage cleavage cleavage! Cleavage.
“Gee, Mrs. Pearls, what beautiful cleavage you have…” said Eddie Haskell, much to Beaver’s dismay.
Crap, now I’m gonna start getting those ads. Good thing it’s 4:20 a.m….
giggity.
Yikes! Check out the latest.
What makes it, of course, is the text: “The best thing to hold onto in life is…”
And no, I’m not talking about the fact that the next word is misspelled…