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Google Ad-words Poetry Project
hecticjames writes "Cute idea - buying google adwords to place poetry. The site also includes google's response." The page is a really interesting look into Google's
text ad service, and has a lot of interesting statistics about the relative
value of art and porn. It's really worth a read.
Either Western society has survived, as it's still around, or no society has ever survived: either they've collapsed, or it's too soon to tell.
Uh huh.. And in other Google news, did you notice the spellchecking and automatic search of correctly spelled query?
Many Google posts
So many are repeated
Taco is obsessed
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
Ads on Google are pretty cheap. I had an idea a while back to just do some dumb ones for anyone who happened to search for my name. Now these guys have beat me to it. Doh! It would be a great way to send hidden messages to freinds, based on what you guess are their search habbits.
Dude, I think I can see my house from here.
jesus: $25.59
clickthroughs the adword 'troll' generates
This is not a dream, not a dream...we are transmitting from the year 1-9-9-9.
I like how God is worth $10.46 a day but
gay + sex ($2,239.56 + $3,836.79) is worth $6076.35 a day.
I wonder what "John Lennon" is worth, he may be right about being bigger than Jesus.. heh Ah, stratification is fun!
is that Google is trying to keep out spam and other forms of evil ads and only let people who want to follow some basic rules that increase the value of the ads advertise. To the folks at google thanks.
Cypherpunks: Civil Liberty Through Complex Mathematics. Those who live by the sword die by the arrow.
I wonder how much the word 'google' is worth?
-- Adam
From Google...
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Hello. I am the automated performance monitor for Google AdWords Select. My job is to keep average clickthrough rates at a high level, so that users can consistently count on AdWords ads to help them find products and services.
The last 1,000 ad impressions I served to your campaign(s) received fewer than five clicks. When I see results like this, I significantly reduce the rate at which I show the ads so you can make changes to improve performance.
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Sincerely,
The Google AdWords Automated Performance Monitor
From Slashdot...
Hello. I am the automated performance monitor for Slashdot. My job is to keep average moderation rates at a high level, so that users can consistently count on Slashdot to help them stay informed on "Stuff that matters."
The last 20 posts you made received a score of zero or lower, and by the way I noticed most of those said something to the effect of "FP" or "Furst PoZt". When I see results like this, I significantly reduce the rate at which I show your comments so you can make changes to improve the meaningfulness of your posts.
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Sincerely,
The Slashdot Automated Performance Monitor
I Heart Sorting Networks
Since from when, has the automatic answer based on some mathematical formula been a "response". Duh, even thou this is quite interesting, i wonder what parts the original poster did *not* read..
yush
Free love from Google costs $8,833.95. Damn, that's a hell of a lot of free love.
... Google aren't really expecting people to post stuff that isn't an ad. So the automated systems are geared towards advertisers. Of course they would be. If Google must have ads, what they want is to make 'em useful and as relevant as possible to the search.
It strikes me as a little bit silly of the artist to complain that Google removed these ads. They were completely irrelevant and attracting no clickthroughs, and so an automated system removed them. As far as I can tell the whole thing was entirely automatic.
How can a robot be expected to tell the difference between 'net-art', a poorly written ad, and a downright deceitful ad? It can't. Big surprise there, then...
Real Daleks don't climb stairs - they level the building.
http://www.iterature.com/sorry.php
One of the reasons his ad campaign faltered is that his so-called poetry sucked. Now I really liked the idea of what he was doing, but he should have come up with better silly ads. Perhaps some haiku related to the word he was buying would work well.
Google charges $3,836.79 per day for sex. Will somebody tell me what they charge for a blowjob?
So ... If I choose expensive words that show up a lot on search results, but word my ad in such a way as to keep people from clicking directly on my site, but rather to send a message to them (such as a political statement), thus keeping my click-thru's low...
Then I get more impressions than I would have if I'd tried to have a higher click-thru, and therefore, my message gets across to more people for less cost.
Interesting. And, I can see why google wouldn't want you to do it (it would reduce the profits from the system).
-- If it ain't broke - overclock it more.
The thing I like about those poems is their subversiveness. How often have you just ignored advertising around you and then suddenly, one anti-advertisement catches your eye? When we surf or even search, we are skimming and go through a lot of things using our peripheral visions.
I once wrote a satirical piece that individuals would need to buy words before they could have the right to use them. So common words like pronouns and sex and friend and give would be too expensive for most people to afford, while words in other minor languages would be considerably cheaper.
Having an auction for words would be interesting and probably add variety to self-expression. Perhaps it is a far-fetched idea, but with Hollywood and content providers placing copyright lassos over so many things, will it be only a matter of time before corporations own the rights to certain words? Also, wouldn't it result in vast new vocabularies being created with every new day? I'm sick of using the word "sex." Why not use the word "glorb" instead?
By the way, if you want an absurdist meditation on words, buying, selling, etc, read The Phantom Tollbooth" by Norton Juster .
Robert Nagle
Robert Nagle, Idiotprogrammer, Houston
You could pull all sorts of little pranks like this, and at only a few cents for a few thousand views... So many opportunities :)
:) I just hope that pranks like this won't drive companies away from self service plans though...
One part I found amusing was that the first letter implied that they thought she was trying to sell something and maybe didn't know that her ads were confusing
to add poem ads, with another color, font, etc. so nobody get confused.
I'm from Argentina: Tango, Asado, Mate, Gaucho, Maradona, YPF
So what you're saying is that depravity, sickness, and hedonism are more popular than morality? And you find this surprising? I wish I had your optimism. :(
I know this is off-topic, but the page linked to here where I found this choice morsel from google's adwords policies:
Links: Ad links to your website must allow people to return from your site to the results page by clicking on the browser's BACK button. These links must open in the same browser window as the ad. Links to pages that spawn pop-up windows are not allowed.
I can't help but be impressed. And they don't go around blurting out how they protect user interests either.
As if that wasn't enough, I did a search today for hhgtg.txt. Try it yourself and see if you aren't impressed.
Blearf. Blearf, I say.
How can anything that happened here be construed as censorship?
AdWords are for ads, not poetry. Google has every right to maintain an advertising system that maximises advertising effectiveness and revenue.
If Google wants to set up a system for serving targetted poetry, they will do so.
You need IE8+ or Netscape12+ on Win3.1+ or IE9+ on Mac to access this site.
What a load of crap!! Will people never learn that Micro$soft and Mac aren't the only OS's in the world!!
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Keyword____Clicks/Day____$/Click_______Cost/Day
freedom_________5.1______$0.37____________$1.88
free_________5700.0_______$1.33________$7,569.23
flossie
Write now. Defend liberty
Okay, I asked if he could see how stuff like "vi/emacs/joe/word/koffice" or "gnome/kde/fvwm" or "linux/windows/bsd" would rate. Let's end all those flamewars once and for all with a pretty accurate non-scientific popularity contest.
:-)
Help me hope he'll put it on the page.
I've never looked or read any of the adword posts. It is just the same damn advert gibberish. Now instead of being a stupid animated gif or flash it's a piece of html (which is nice in a non-obtrusive way). I won't be surprised if any adblocker program figures out how to parse a page from *.google.com to remove said word ads.
What is music when you despise all sound?
Broken IIS
Quietly wanking admin
Leaves hole for hacker
As some uninformed person once said,
"I may not know art, but I know what I like."
And personally, I don't like the first "poem" listed.
The first one says:
Words aren't free anymore
bicornuate-bicervical uterus
one-eyed hemi-vagina
www.unbehagen.com
This is supposed to be a poem? Come on, it's childish gibberish at best, and at worst it is a verbal attack on women. And since it is is response to the keyword "symtom", what relevence is it?
The second one says:
Follow your dreams
Did I just urinate ?
Directly into the wind
www.unbehagen.com
Again, childish drivel, in response to the keyword "dream".
the third one actually is redeeming:
mary !!!
I love you
come back
john
While not great literature, very emotive. In response to "mary", by the way.
And the last:
don't ever do that again
aaargh !
are you mad ?
ooops !!!
This one is in response to the keyword "money". so while it isn't as tasteless as the first two, what relevence does it have?
While I do support artistic expression, even the ones I find offensive or dimwitted, I also support the right of companies to limit their services as they see fit. If Google decides that these "poems" are offensive to their normal audience, they have the right to stop them. At least suspend them pending further review, and possibly see where the artist is going with it.
If these "poems" (I can't even legitimately call them poems, so yes the quotes are needed.) contained racist comments, they would be pulled in the same way. Since a large number of people may find at least the first two offensive, Google can pull them if they like, or if their legal advisors deem it appropriate.
I haven't read the whole page, just the top part, so I don't know where the porn ties into it, but this doesn't seem as big a deal as the submitter makes it out to be. If I searched for "dream" and got a link about peeing into the wind, I wouldn't be to impressed with the service.
Creative poet,
writes poor quality poems.
Google dissaproves.
"Your superior intellect is no match for our puny weapons!"
may not be able to afford their own name.
Um, since I assume you mean to be computing the value of the phrase "gay sex," I think you need to be re-examining your methodology. The phrase "gay sex" would be the intersection of "gay" and "sex," rather than their sum. From what we're told, we have no way of computing their intersection (and therefore, not even what the value of their union is...).
Besides, I think it's pretty obvious therefore that John Lennon would rank higher that Jesus, but what about Thrill Kill Kult?
IP is just rude.
Is there any torture so subl
The main rules of this new world are not ethic rules. As you can read in the emails I received, my happening has been censored by Google not for moral reasons but for economic ones.
Google provides their adword service so that related topics can be displayed next to real live search results. Making sure the ads returned are related to the search performed makes sense for google, its users, and its adword advertisers.
This guy wants to force unrelated poetry into your view instead. As a result, no one was clicking on his adword because it wasn't related to their search, and google's automatic ranking system lowered his ads due to the very low click-through rate. The guy could keep his ads on google, they just would very rarely be displayed due to their not being related to the searches.
A self-correcting system that makes sense.
Google rules.
I don't agree with the reasons why I was censored. I believe that the censorship rules of Google are not in accordance with the power and the importance of the tool they have created.
But it's NOT censorship! (Even ignoring for a moment that 'censorship' is really only when THE GOVERNMENT prevents you from saying something, not a PRIVATE COMPANY!)
Such a tool should be used more freely and should be self-regulated.
How the fuck could google be "self-regulated," since mySELF doesn't have control over google?
They are a private company, not your personal tool for serving poetry.
"And like that
Think I'm joking? His own words describe it:
Well, tough for you. The site is a tool for searching, not for your grandstanding at their expense.
Those poems sucked worse than anything I've ever read ever.
Which just goes to show the problems with the whole "open software" movement. People actually care about what is gratis not vrij.
I.e. They do not care about the freedom of things, just the prive of things. :-(
I bet there would be articles about how Microsoft is using its monopoly powers to dictate how people write their webpages and to crush competition and suppress free speech.
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If not, perhaps you should check out the requirements again. Also, check out his other poetry site. The error message is actually quite cool.
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The thing that strikes me most is how different this is from advertising on tv and radio. On tv, the ad rate is based on how many people watch the show, what its rating is. An ad during a popular prime-time show costs more money than an ad at 3 in the morning. But the tv companies don't care what you put in your ad. They are selling you one shot at reaching your audience. If you blow it, they don't care. They only time they care is if you try to show something like an ad from adbusters that might actually suggest that people not spend money they don't have on crap they don't need. But if you want to be silly, so what?
/. to find news about InterSystems. But people who visit google are there looking for something.
Because google gets paid not by the number of people that see the ad but by the number of people that follow it, their concern is with getting people to click the ad.
If google were to sell ads like tv (and who is to say they shouldn't), they would charge based on the number of searches you want to be linked to. If there are 1,000,000 searches on "soda pop" a day, then charge every one who wants an ad to show up then $100, and it is up to you to make your ad work within their guidelines.
In some ways, this makes more sense. Within the rules for google's text ads, why should they take the risk that your marketing drones can get out a decent ad. Because that is the risk they are assuming now. And that's why there is this automated system that checks click throughs.
From a business perspective, you want to accept as little risk as possible, especially for things you can't control.
The flip side of this coin is that google doesn't want the value of their ads to drop. No one who has been on the net for more than 5 minutes pays attention to the hit the monkey ads or the ads that rotate around slashdot. Why? Because they are often random and have little relationship to the page we are visiting or the reason for our visit. At least that's how it seems to me. I certainly don't visit
So maybe google wants to make sure that the ads are relevant because it doesn't want to accept the risk that its ads will considered worthless, thus dropping the price they can charge for them.
Again, this is the reverse of the way it works on tv. Advertisers will drop a show because they don't want to be associated with its message. Look at the companies that pulled advertisements from Ellen because she came out. But when was the last time you heard of a show not accepting a willing advertiser with cash money? Besides the adbuster ads of course.
With google, we get the reverse. It's like having UPN saying no ads for depends diapers during Buffy:TVS because the ads are unrelated to the show and the ads will cause the value of the show to drop. They don't care if you think that a lot of young people will rush out and buy depends. As long as your check clears.
Is it right? FIIK. It's a balancing act between losing your good name and generating revenue efficiently.
Since I'm bored and have an adwords account already, I checked for the cost of this phrase. Result: $300/day. Meanwhile, "straight sex" results in $12/day....
What if Microsoft bought Google? Or, a scarier thought: What if Google became the next Evil Empire?
"Anything is better than IE, and you can quote me on that." -- Wil Wheaton.
hmm... looks like I found something to do during that 4/21 slashdot comment boycott!
mmm... yeah... You see, we're putting the cover sheets on all TPS reports now before they go out...
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I never saw her Google Ads;
I never hope to see Any;
But I can Tell you, Anyhow,
Her poetry's not worth a penny.
flossie
Write now. Defend liberty
simple. a complete moron wrote the webpage..
be sure to let everyone know that the authors of the webpages are complete Luzers and idiots.
Seemed like the person who put up the 'poetry' felt that Google was intentionally censoring him. Actually, they automatically disable keywords if those words are getting you less than 5 hits per 1000 times they are displayed.
They mention this rule here.
One of the messages he received from Google (and quoted on the web site) pointed this out.
this post costs $1.85 per click. These are the most popular words, apparently.
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If you think big enough, you'll never have to do it.
From the adwords page:
Relevancy: To ensure user interest and advertising success, all of your keywords must be relevant to your site or products. Furthermore, if you advertise a product or offer, you must link directly to the page on your site with that product or offer.
If you search for slashdot on google you get an "Google is hiring!" ad. Now that is targeted advertising.
I noticed this new 'pay for click' advertising format on Google during the whole Xenu.net thing and decided to give it a try. I figured it would maximize my exposure while keeping my costs low. It was basically nonesense ads to my personal website targeted to words like 'stupid, lazy, engineer, engineering, waterloo' and the like. No one would click I figured, and I'd get a vew thousand views before I got my campain canned.
That's exactly what happened. My click-thru rate was too low and my ads stopped displaying. Never noticed that CTR clause when I was signing up, I figured I'd have a longer free ride. I still think it was a fun way to spend $5, (well, $5.70 with the price of all those clicks I got) and there's no one I'd rather give it to than Google.
It's a shame about the CTR limit, it would be nice to have accessable, effective advertising like this. The cost of 'important' words is deterrent enough for joyriders like me.
DataSquid.net, a little about me.
Another thing to think about, the author seems to be a bit upset that google won't let him post whatever he wants associated with whatever keyword he wishes... Well there's a good reason for that. A good example would be my kid brother last year putting "Nintendo" into a search engine and getting back a few hundred hits for porn sites. While I won't argue that porn site shouldn't be on the Internet (Hail Free Speech!), allowing anyone to associate themselves w/ a keyword on a search engine that has absolutely nothing to do w/ their site is not in the interest of a private company that would like to avoid lawsuits.
Just my 2cp
Maxim: People cannot follow directions.
Increases in truth directly with the length of time spent explaining them
Try searching on hentai instead.
:)
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It's the end of my comment as I know it and I feel fine.
Ah!
"Her poems aren't worth a penny" scans a little better (but that second line stumbles a bit).
This next song is very sad. Please clap along. -- Robin Zander
This could get entertaining:
/. (the gods are right, must be Google time for the Taco); but, it might be entertaining to build a cost-calculating dictionary (rolling queries and freshness to stay below the access limit) that would show the cost of any given word in the lexicon.
If google were to add an interface to the cost-querying logic to the new Google APIs, not only would it likely end up on
Useless, most likely, but definitely entertaining. Plus *grins* then from the usage statistics, you see the meta-data answering the following question: What words do people wonder about the value of
Free + Gay + Sex ??? (7,569.23 + 2,239.56 + 3,836.79 = $13,645.58/day)
Karma? Karma? I don't need no stinkin' karma.
micro$oft
The general pattern is searching for a word that symbolizes Mammon, except do a phrase search (surround with quotes) and replace the most accented 'S' with a space. Thus, you get results for "Di Ney", "Michael Ei Ner", "Uni Ys" GIF, "Micro Oft", "Expen Ive", "Make Money Fa T", "Cientology", "Indu Try", "Capitali M", "Dollar Igns", "Free Ca H", etc. However, you don't get any "Re Ults" for "Hilary Ro En". Yet.
Will I retire or break 10K?
This is the funniest damn thing i've seen in a long damn time
It's used by that annoying redirect to /dev/null that he created.
Free unix account: freeshell.org
Back in the days of Q-Link, when screen names were only 10 characters and there was no automatic recycling after six months, Q-Link would auction off a handful of used screen names to the highest bidder. We're only talking in the tens of dollars, but it was always interesting to see what screen names people were willing to PAY to get.
spend $5 on google and get your page slashdotted, wish I would have thought of it.
Even ignoring for a moment that 'censorship' is really only when THE GOVERNMENT prevents you from saying something, not a PRIVATE COMPANY!
However, when the private company wields a government-enforced monopoly, any action by the private company that silences legitimate speech is no different from the same action by the government itself. Look at the case of Time Warner trying to erase the public memory of Speedy Gonzales by refusing to air cartoons starring SG and refusing further to license them at any price.
(Google does not hold a monopoly on paid placement advertising, so this doesn't apply directly to the article.)
Will I retire or break 10K?
A 'happening' on the net. I feel so ... enriched
*yawn*
now where did I put that black turtle neck and fake Eurotrash accent?
The difficulty of getting non-traditional information in ad spots reminds me of AdBusters trying to get TV airtime for their Uncommercials because they're both having trouble getting non-traditional spots in ad slots and they both bring public awareness to their trouble.
Digital Citizen
Drumroll please... "Free"! Ironic, isn't it?
The price of words : towards a generalized semantic capitalism
Man, I want 0.25 of an ounce of what this guy's been smoking.
Still, I suppose it takes all types. I'm a mathematician, and while I think this guy's language is full of BS, anyone who isn't in mathematics reading one of my papers would probably feel the same about my writing.
any geeks with money are gonna be throwing haikus everywhere...
google reaches more
geeks meet art
no more money
Over at Kuro5hin, the site is pretty much paid for by user placed ads.
The difference between user text ads and corporate ads is amazing. There is a lot of fun in the top-left corner of the screen, where the ads sit. You can also comment on most ads (there is an option to prohibit commenting, but it is rarely used), as if they were stories.
We Kuro5hin-ers are quite happy with our ad system.
How the hell were any of those snippets considered "poetry"?! I'll let haiku go because it has a highly restricted form, but it ain't a poem if it doesn't rhyme...you're just not trying at that point. I mean, heck most poetry is just BS anyway...if you're not going to even try to make it rhyme, I'll just read the nutritional info on my cereal box.
Modern art is bull.
"Artists", formerly called
"Strange mental patients". =)
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"Because google gets paid not by the number of people that see the ad but by the number of people that follow it, their concern is with getting people to click the ad."
:p).
Using click-throughs as a metric has been debunked over and over and over and over. It's not about having people click links, it's about getting a message across to your target audience. When I see a Pesi commercial on TV, I don't run out to buy more. But I might think, "yea -- Pepsi is good" (depending on the content -- I don't like Britney
Click throughs ignore people who see an ad and check into it later, people who feel better about consuming what the ad is promoting and will also consume more later, and much more.
Don't push clickthroughs as a metric. That dilutes your ad promotion power to first time and curious people. Those people aren't a solid return customer metric upon which to base any sort of business.
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Internet Explorer (n): Another bug -- that is, a feature that can't be turned off -- in Windows.
after seeing the list at the bottom im putting "free" "gay" "sex" FIRST in my tags and resubmitting to google then i got to make sure all my ads have those words in there also - those are some mighty nice numbers of clicks no wonder porn sites do so well.
Ave Molech Setting
Hey! YOU'RE the one using IE. Retard.
Friends don't let friends encrypt documents with a proprietary protocol (like Microsoft Word format).
I can't remember what I was looking up when I saw this ad, but it was something benign. Now, I am not shitting you, that's what came up on my screen. It went to this webpage, which I'm surprised is still up.
It made me wonder whether we're becoming a self-appointed nation of commandos, or whether that was someone with simply way too much time and money on his hands.
Woof! Bark! Ruff! Woof! Bark!
Ruff! Woof! Ruff! Bark! Woof! Ruff! Bark!
Bark! Woof! Ruff! Woof! Bark!
According to the stats midway through the article, Bruno (presumably Rennisance philosopher Giordano Bruno) is searched for on Google more often than either Einstein or Freud. Now, I'm a bit fond of Il Nolano myself, but I rather thought he was rather obscure to people who haven't read Aegypt or Finnegan's Wake.
You really want to know? I have an account:
Keyword Matches vi
16,300 impressions (these are per-day)
Estimated cost per day: US$244.50
Keyword Matches emacs
17,200 impressions
Estimated cost per day: US$258.00
Keyword Matches joe
50,400 impressions
Estimated cost per day: US$756.00
Keyword Matches word
94,300 impressions
Estimated cost per day: US$1,414.50
Keyword Matches koffice
200 impressions
Estimated cost per day: US$3.00
Keyword Matches gnome
15,700 impressions
Estimated cost per day: US$235.50
Keyword Matches kde
15,200 impressions
Estimated cost per day: US$228.00
Keyword Matches fvwm
0 impressions
Estimated cost per day: US$0.00 0 impressions
Keyword Matches linux
523,200 impressions
Estimated cost per day: US$7,848.00
Keyword Matches windows
690,300 impressions
Estimated cost per day: US$10,354.50
Keyword Matches bsd
6,900 impressions
Estimated cost per day: US$103.50
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So, in summary, BSD really is dying, emacs just barely beats vi, KDE and gnome are neck and neck, and no one uses fvwm. Oh, and if you ask someone what koffice is, they will look at you funny.
I've had enough abrasive sigs. Kittens are cute and fuzzy.
after reading this thread I got motivated to go out and buy an ad or two of my own. Figured a personal project of mine, <a href="http://www.windistheenemy.com> wind is the enemy</a>, could use a bit more hits. Signed up, nice and easy, and the ad was up in minutes, nice. Nice for a half hour that is, promptly got this email at that point:<br><I><br>Thank you for advertising with AdWords Select. <br> <br>Unfortunately, we are currently unable to run the following Campaign on Google.<br> <br>Campaign #1<br> <br>At this time, Google policy does not permit the advertisement that advocate against any organization,state or person on our website. We reserve the right to exercise editorial discretion when it comes to the advertising we accept on our site, as noted in our advertising terms and conditions. <br> <br>Google believes strongly in freedom of expression and therefore offers broad access to content across the web without censoring search results. Please note that the decisions we make concerning advertising in no way affect the search results we deliver. We will continue to show search results that advocate against any organization.</I><br> <br>I can smell a bit of post scientology tension, but perhaps thats my imagination. I wouldn't call it censorship, but its a small step...<br> <br>Interesting thing to me is that my site is entirely images, no machine readable text at all beyond some stripped down html. That means there is a pretty good chance some random google person actually took the time to look at my site. Course they could have just reacted to "enemy" in the url title, but you'd think they would catch that before the ad ran...
Abstract Dynamics
Javascript ... let me get this straight... you willingly accept code from random web sites and then interpret it according to their wishes and not yours?
What did you think would happen?
Man, I can't see why anyone would turn that on.
People tend to see the GoogleAd box here only as a money gaining mechanism for Google. This is not true.
Google prvides wide range fo searching mechanisms for it's users. It has it's PageRank system. It's links to the Open Directory, Usenet articles, etc.
I tend to see this GoogleAd box as an economy driven search ranking system. If Ad is well placed it will show more often and the owner of it can pay for it to the Google. Otherwise it will eventually fade. Money driven darwinism results better search results.
-- nyri
...but I first thought of Bruno Kirby.
"Understand you're having a little Jimmy Page trouble."
bullshit - try to get one of these on a major network.
.02
cLive ;-)
-- Trinity in high heels carrying a whip: The donimatrix - there is no spoonerism
This is censorship of the worst kind. The TV companies have a government-enforced monopoly over the public airwaves, and are using it to suppress political speech.
Many (American) people believe that because the First Amendment only restricts Government censorship then there is no such thing as 'private censorship'. They're wrong. 'Censorship' by a private company remains censorship, it just isn't unconstitutional...
As various posters have pointed out, the word censor basically means something along the lines of: 'to examine books etc for the purpose of suppressing parts deemed objectionable on moral, political or other grounds'.
Thus, if in my ISP's chatroom, I criticise the company and its level of service, and that company deliberately deletes my posts, then I have been censored.
The fact that this is probably entirely lawful under my terms of service does not alter the fact that it is censorship.
The fact that this is not absolute (I can repost my comments elsewhere) does not alter the fact that it is censorship. (Censorship is almost never absolute. Texts censored by the Soviet Union would still pop up, printed and distributed illegally.)
This has been a brief digression on the subject of private censorship. I make no comment on the google-adwords thing (because I can't access the freakin' website as it's been slashdotted (but not censored)).
Nick
that's just all the emacs gurus trying to learn how to use feature # 1322130812 of emacs (coffee machine)
Photos.
"You see two ads: Barney's which is in black and white, has a globe breaking while a woman sings. Homer's has the Mr. Plow logo, a phone number and the fact that he is licensed and bonded (yes, I know he really wasn't, please play along). "
It was Homer's second ad that was in black and white and parodied "Obsession". Barney's ad had Linda Ronstadt and went something like ". . . Mr. Plow is a loser / And I think he is a boozer / So you better make that call to the Plow King"
How about:
I never saw her Google Ads;
I hope to not see Any;
But I can Tell you, Anyhow,
Her poems aren't worth a penny.
For example, a poem can not rhyme but follow a set beat pattern. (Like a limerick that doesn't rhyme.) Other examples could be a common starting sound (starting each line with a sound as opposed to vice versa, sort of like allieration) or trying to envoke a sound via words (onomatopoeia).
In any case, a poem need not rhyme. The only thing poems usually have are set lines that don't necessarily match sentences.
Anyway, I'm not a poet or an English major or anything like that, so check out About.com's section on poetry writing for various styles of poetry, not all of which involve rhyming. (Although most styles do.)
You are in a maze of twisty little relative jumps, all alike.
..that was getting kickbacks from google.
Interesting that google has been pushing their Adwords select for quite heavily latelly, and now slashdot is marketing it for them with a rather lame article who's only purpose is to explain how adwords works.
Buy a banner ad on this site if you want to advertise. Is this the MS of OS, OSDN and Google sandbox the open source community?
Both slashdot and OSDN are awesome, but c'mon guys, lets be a little more open about what's going on here.
how about Vim?
;-)
you know, it's the only Vi-clone which has enough features to "compete" with emacs
If you take the searches Vim into account, maybe it would beat emacs
I never saw her Google Ads;
And I hope to not see Any;
But I can Tell you, Anyhow,
That Her poems aren't worth a penny.
Here's a great line from the article:
"I like imagining that somebody looking for something is suddenly projected into a completely different area."
That is so brilliant! I've *NEVER* seen a search engine do that before this guy started his project! Maybe he should get a patent on it?!
Taking stuff apart since 1969 (TM)
Well, there *is* a million-dollar reward for Usama bin Laden...
Taking stuff apart since 1969 (TM)
Way too much time? Probably. If he had way too much money, though, he would have: bought webspace on a real server; paid someone to do some rudimentary attempt at website design; and bought a dictionary so that "Thanatos" would have been spelled correctly.
!#@%*)anks for hanging up the phone, dear.
Interesting. Of course "gnome" is also a dictionary word and KDE is not (well, in Czech it is, I believe), so it might not be as neck to neck as this implies. I think I'm gonna buy fvwm keywords and see how long I can last with $5. ;-)
Yeah, I'm starting to warm to it. Is there any reasonable way to lose the split infinitive? (because I'm that sort of bear -- I always wince and mutter, "boldly to go!" at the beginning of Star Trek)
This next song is very sad. Please clap along. -- Robin Zander
http://3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716 939937510582097.org/
You do not exist. Go away.
Of course it does. But is the "price" of better search results really *that* high? It wouldn't surprise me if it is. The price of eternal vigilance is liberty.