Google's Flawed Logic

nekokate · Post by **nekokate** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 6:28 pm

I just had to laugh at this. Google proving that its special "targeted advertising" software isn't quite as artificially intelligent as it should be!

Mandy · Post by **Mandy** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 6:39 pm

Actually, it might be the opposite .. i.e. It either thinks someone who is searching for George might be looking for "mud to sling", OR it wants to show that person the view of someone AGAINST George.

But it isn't google's viewpoint : The person who puts up the advert (under Google's ADSENSE advert scheme) lists which keywords they want their advert associated with, so in above case, Ann Coulter seems to want to "target" GG's "traffic"

nekokate · Post by **nekokate** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 6:43 pm

Mandy wrote:Actually, it might be the opposite .. i.e. It either thinks someone who is searching for George might be looking for "mud to sling", OR it wants to show that person the view of someone AGAINST George.

But it isn't google's viewpoint : The person who puts up the advert (under Google's ADSENSE advert scheme) lists which keywords they want their advert associated with, so in above case, Ann Coulter seems to want to "target" GG's "traffic"

You take the humour out of everything. LOL.

Mandy · Post by **Mandy** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 6:44 pm

nekokate wrote:You take the humour out of everything. LOL.

You may not be surprised to hear that you aren't the first one who has told me this.

My computer says the same to me every day ....

Post by **faceless** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 6:44 pm

makes you wonder what her web people put in as catch-alls... I feel like signing up now though, I like to read something that makes the blood boil with my morning tea. haha

Mandy · Post by **Mandy** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 6:48 pm

p.s. One way to "reward" Ann Coulter for showing you her advert, is to click on it when it is displayed to see where it leads to .. and if her web team are charged for the privilege (up to 50c per click through), well they only have themselves to blame for making their advert so lovely & enticing you to click it.

nekokate · Post by **nekokate** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 6:51 pm

I'm tempted to sign up, actually. It might give me something to rant about.

luke · Post by **luke** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 10:30 pm

i'm more interested in what web page you had up you didn't want us to see

... that and yo american sheep

nekokate · Post by **nekokate** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 10:43 pm

luke wrote:i'm more interested in what web page you had up you didn't want us to see ... that and yo american sheep

Hehe, well that was my own website, but I thought better than to show it, cos it's from the fetish half of my life, not the political half...

luke · Post by **luke** » Thu Jul 05, 2007 10:50 pm

nekokate wrote:
luke wrote:i'm more interested in what web page you had up you didn't want us to see ... that and yo american sheep
Hehe, well that was my own website, but I thought better than to show it, cos it's from the fetish half of my life, not the political half...

now i'm even more intrigued