Something is seriously wrong with these Google Ads. All I'm seeing is

[Up2Late]

...the same ads that you see if you mistakenly go to a RW political site.

I hope it's O.K. to discuss this on a GD thread, but I haven't see one yet, that I would dare click on.

Maybe they need to fix the algorithm or something, I'm not sure how Google chooses what ad to place, but these seem wrong to me.

[IndyOp]

1. The Mods know this - they can block some URL's but it takes time. (nt)

:hi:

[Up2Late]

6. They do seem to be improving, so I hope you are right.

A lot of these take you to very deceptive sites.

[lindisfarne]

2. Look at the ones above "announcements" - I saw a "support barbara

boxer" one there from some PAC (I think).

[NJ_Lib]

3. Earl just posted about this...

... very issue, on the front page... :)

[Up2Late]

10. O.K., I'll look for it.

Thanks.

[flamin lib]

4. Click on 'em all! They get charged by the click regardless of

whether you buy anything. I take the Repub snail mail and send pizza coupons back to 'em. Anything to use up the budget!

[ContraBass Black]

28. No, if you go around clicking randomly, DU will get less money

Not more.

[Xeric]

5. If you don't like em.....

firefox plus http://www.customizegoogle.com/

[Up2Late]

13. Thank, I'll try it soon

I hate all ads, (I use AdSubtract and SpySweeper, FireFox, etc.) and these are really beginning to annoy me.

[lies and propaganda]

7. i just got a Chinese Baseball ad

and a Hillary or Condi ad.

Im not realling digging that i have to read them, i like them much better on the side.

[aquart]

8. all I ask is that they don't bounce.

there are sites where I have to tape paper to half the screen so I can read the other half because of a distractive, moving, bouncing ad.

[Up2Late]

20. Here's something you might want to test, they have a 30-Day free trial

<http://www.intermute.com/products/adsubtract.html>



"AdSubtract" gets rid of most of the really annoying ads. I've used it for about 4 years now.

[benburch]

9. Context sensitive ads...

If we talk about RW trash, Google sees that context and gives ads that seem to match.

Don't worry about this; It is normal, and means we are sucking in money from those RW advertisers!

I think its sort of cool.

[WiseButAngrySara]

21. How funny! I know that I talk more about B*, Rove, Cheney and

evil crew than I do about any single Democrat! And I think this holds for DU GD as well! You're saying that Google recognizes DU as a RW site, because of all the references to B* cabal?

:rofl: !!!!

[benburch]

23. Well, a pattern matching program "knows" nothing.

But yes, it think we must want to see ads that have those context keywords.

[WiseButAngrySara]

29. I'm sure you're right ! I find that so funny! The google scanner is

almost as dumb as Tom DeLay, taking Colbert's satire as support for him!

[diamondsndust]

11. sometimes it can take up to 24 hours for ads relevent to the

content of the site to appear...


and NO, thats NOT 24 business hours! :rofl:

[Mist]

12. There was some discussion yesterday about previous ads a few

years ago. It seems ad placement is partly determined by the number of times words or phrases are used. Since we spend a lot of time excoriating Rethugs, there will be some ads that are meant to appeal to Rethugs. (Hey, does "Rethugs" register as part of sthe word count?)

[Up2Late]

15. I don't know, but this is a good reason for all of us to avoid using...

...the proper names of the people we a bitching about.

Maybe someone here should register "ReThuglican .com" before it's taken.:shrug:

[sui generis]

14. I had the same issue with a GMail account

I contacted them and explained and someone "fixed" it for me - I haven't seen a single RW ad since.

They use some kind of "concordance" analysis - it basically counts the number of times a political term is used, assigns it a relevance and drops it through some guessing software to find the ads most likely to earn a click.

The problem with political websites and conversation is that we're often talking about what we dislike more than what we like, so that's what they think we're interested in clicking on.

[Demeter]

16. The Ads Are Profoundly Irritating

I'm developing eyestrain.

[TrogL]

17. I'm spooked

I've got nothing but Pink Floyd ads.

Yes, I love Pink Floyd but how did it know that?

[TrogL]

22. How about this batch?

In a thread about an athiest removing crosses from a roadside memorial

Ultrasound Agnostic Atheist Fetus Fetal Islam

[Up2Late]

26. Atheist Fetus Fetal Islam? oooohhh, not THAT'S a site I want to see!

BTW, I think we all got the Pink Floyd ads at the same time.

Don't freak out man! :hippie:

[The Straight Story]

27. We should all edit our sig lines to help target the ads :)

bush sucks criminal impeach

[NJ_Lib]

25. Lucky guess... Doesn't everybody love...

...Pink Floyd...? :)

[SeveneightyWhoa]

18. Who cares? The only one benefitting is DU!

And the right-wing advertisers are LOSING out because they're paying for clicks from people who will obviously never become customers..

On the other hand, when you click on liberal ads to support DU, you're actually making the progressive site pay dearly.

I'd say its better if most of the ads are right-wing ones..

[Scoody Boo]

19. I saw an ad for...

Free Republic twice already. Nah, just kidding. I think it goes by key words and "War on Terror" posts are going to bring up a lot of military ads. The system picks up on a few key words not the context of them. They borrowed the process from the NSA. :)

[LoZoccolo]

24. Who cares?

Do what I do and don't click on them.