Friday, February 28, 2003

I'm sure by now everyone with a Blogger account has noticed the new text ads that have recently replaced the banner ads that previously appeared at the top of our blogs (or rather appeared at the top of the blogs of us too cheap to upgrade). The content of these ads is determined by the content of the blog it appears on. Presumably this system works by way of an algorithm like the one that powers the text ads that appear down the right side of the page at Google. Here's where things get odd. The ads that appear at Google are determined by the specific search request. So my question is, if someone hits my blog by searching Google for erotic grannies or "Communist Porn" (which has happened recently), because my blog contains words like "erotic", "grannies", "communist", "porn", etc., is my blog going to end up with the same kind of porno text ads that you'd see at Google if you searched for erotic grannies or "Communist Porn"?

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