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Google Ad-words Poetry Project

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the something-unique dept.

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.

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  1. eh? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    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. :(

  2. Very impressive by MadFarmAnimalz · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

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    Blearf. Blearf, I say.
  3. Re:Googles response. by tswinzig · · Score: 3, Informative
    Since from when, has the automatic answer based on some mathematical formula been a "response".

    Since from when of us has read a dictionary and studied the use of grammar?

    response (r-spns)
    n.

    1. The act of responding.
    2. A reply or an answer.
    3. A reaction, as that of an organism or a mechanism, to a specific stimulus.


    By the way, you can treat this as my response to your response.
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  4. My Experience by DataSquid · · Score: 3, Informative

    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.

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    DataSquid.net, a little about me.
  5. Re:Censored? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    How can anything that happened here be construed as censorship?

    First let's examine what happened here. From the article:

    "My ads were then Disapproved and my campaigns were suspended."

    Which implies that Google later examined his ad and disapproved it.

    Now let's look at the definition of the word 'censor':

    "to examine in order to suppress or delete anything considered objectionable"

    I think it is reasonable to say he was censored by Google. The problem is that the media, and other extremists have overhyped the word.