I use Google AdSense as a way of trying to make a little spare cash from my blog. I’ve only just started, and I’m still figuring out what ad settings work best.
I just changed from a list of searches/hits to an Ad. Imagine my surprise when it came up with a Gay Blog Site ad: and I have no idea how it came up with this. I am not gay, and I haven’t written anything about homosexuality (before now).
Of course, the irony is that I’m probably going to get more of them now, even though I’ve filtered that one…
Guess that’s one of the many blunders of automated keyword selection. I’ve had an ad like that (probably the same one) pop up on my site a few times. Needless to say, it was in the filter 15 seconds later. Gay blogging link on a technology blog. :/
But you’ve still got to give credit to Google’s contextual ad selection ability. It’s usually right on the mark if it has a lot of context to choose from, producing the only kind of ads which are actually useful to the readers, and the only kind I’ve actually clicked on serious about what was on the other side.
16 hours, 45 minutes after the fact.
I must say, that is quite funny. I might need to pay more attention to the ads that come up w/ my adsense…
2 weeks, 4 days after the fact.