Bizarre Google Ads at Jerusalem Post Web site on February 8, 2005

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[Chad Fairbanks]

How much are they charging for the Palestinian? What kind of work are they willing to do? I have a few ummmm "obstacles" in my way, and well, I want the cleared.

Thanks in advance!

[Next_Time_NJ]

did we say anything about a big story? Sounds like someone needs to take some meds. Its called a point of interest. Dont like it, dont reply..

[stuck_in_new_orleans]

did we say anything about a big story?

Sorry, looks like this wont be your online Google Watergate......Its not even a "story".

[Words]

Well, a country, which is a highest bidder gets all this "Huge Selection Of Palestinian". I think, Israel may even consider bearing transfer costs.;)

[Next_Time_NJ]

between your babbling some other freepers find this a neat story.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

The trouble is, there's just no use for Palestinians these days. I mean, if you're looking for a thug, a murderer, or even a camel rapist, there's no better deal at any price. But unfortunately the market's just not there.

[BigSkyFreeper]

between your babbling some other freepers find this a neat story.

Let's not ignore the fact, you've shown you have no clue how Google ads work.

[leilani]

OK. I just went to google and punched in "palestinian", & got the returns in the ad column just as in your screenshot (Palestinian for sale on ebay, Palestinian singles, etc.) Next I went to google and punched in Scandinavian, and got returns for scandinavian for sale on ebay, scandinavian singles, etc. If you use google with any frequency you'll see that what shows up with whatever you punch in (for example, pavlova recipe) will turn up there. Nothing sinister, nothing controversial other than it can't be the most effective way of advertising.E-bay pays google to pull up whatever search terms are entered by their users in its sidebar ads, that's all.

[Next_Time_NJ]

Lets not ignore the fact that anyone who says i dont know, has not said how they work. Sounds like a bunch of wind to me. I know exactly how they work.

[Next_Time_NJ]

Again google ads have nothing to do with the search engine. In the search engine you can type in "Cars" and get porn.. I understand how doorway pages, and keywords on websites work. On ads hosting portion you pick what type of sites you want your website to show. The ads that actually show up in google ads are people that paid for them to be there. If it did use the search engine then sites that sold cars for instance would be showing porn advertisements because of fake doorway pages.

[Jackknife]

News/Activism? I don't think so.

[FourtySeven]

I find this interesting.

I think the way the ads work is exactly how you said they do, NJ. When one signs up to voluntarily host these ads, to help defray costs or whatever, the ad is basically a "program" that "tries to" (for lack of MUCH better computer terminology) fit itself into the content of the website in question. It probably does this by scanning the content of the website in question, on a daily basis, to see what's the "most talked about" thing on the website, so that it will then display an ad targeted at that popular topic. Thus, in this example, I wouldn't be suprised if the Jerusalem Post had numerous articles about Abbas and about Palestinians, thus, the ads, in their computer programmed way, tried to target ads at those "topics", and maybe have even known that Abbas is a person. As for the Palestinians, the program may have (at least appears to have) interpreted them as something for sale for some bizzare reason known only to the computer program probably. hehe

All in all, there's a lot of computations going on there that I couldn't explain (since I'm no technical guru) but I'm pretty sure that the concept I described above is what's going on.

Nothing really evil, but it can at times give such bizzare results. It's a computer program, not something intelligent, so what do you expect? hehe