{"id":10340,"date":"2006-08-15T20:58:14","date_gmt":"2006-08-15T17:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/08\/15\/conspiracy-of-context-sensitive-advertising\/"},"modified":"2011-08-23T23:05:53","modified_gmt":"2011-08-23T21:05:53","slug":"conspiracy-of-context-sensitive-advertising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/08\/15\/conspiracy-of-context-sensitive-advertising\/","title":{"rendered":"Conspiracy of context sensitive advertising"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I think I’ve uncovered another conspiracy by Google<\/a>, particularly with their context sensitive advertising service AdSense. It’s not a bad conspiracy – as far as I am concerned, they are trying to do a good thing. But still, it’s a mean way to go about it.<\/p>\n

A reader of this blog left a comment to one of my earlier posts<\/a> about media brain wash, a story about Dell notebook exploding at some conference. Jon agreed with me that this story was a pure media hype. In his comment he said exactly this:<\/p>\n

Now it won’t be long before some terrorist hops on a plane with Dell laptop batteries strapped all over his body. I agree, this story is media hype.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In order for me not to miss any comments, and to respond faster to my readers, the moment any of your post a comment, I get an email notification. As you know, recently I moved all my email affairs to Google’s mail service GMail<\/a>. Now, Google uses its own AdSense service to show ads to people while they are reading their emails. The content of the email is used to determine which related ads should be shown.<\/p>\n

\"GMail<\/a> When I openned a notification email with Jon’s comment I was shown four ads on the right. All four ad links were about notebooks. Two links were generic, but two others featured a brand. And although the brand in the content of the email was Dell, both branded ads were about IBM.<\/p>\n

Now, you might think that this is just a coinsidence. But for two links out of four? I don’t think so. What is more probable is that Google undestood that Dell brand was used in connection with terrorism and tried to substitute that for IBM. Probably that was an attempt to sell non-explosive items to terrorists. Thanks Google, but no thanks.<\/p>\n

NOTE (this note should have been written a very small font, but since noone will read so far down, I’ll leave it as it is): please, don’t take this entry seriously. I’m just messing with you.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

I think I’ve uncovered another conspiracy by Google, particularly with their context sensitive advertising service AdSense. It’s not a bad conspiracy – as far as I am concerned, they are trying to do a good thing. But still, it’s a mean way to go about it. 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