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    Forget disturbing search requests, how about “Disturbing Ad Requests?”

Third day [1], and already I'm leary about Google's AdSense [2].

Earlier today it wasn't serving up ads. At first, I thought they took
exception to my critical stance towards them, or of the disclaimer I have
just below their ads and dropped me. But no, I was still signed up. It's just
that for a period of time, Google just … couldn't serve up ads.

How odd.

Then, when it was working again, what do I see? An add for “Diary Of An
Anorexic Girl” followed by an ad for “Fleming's Steakhouse” (at least the
steakhouse is in Florida [3] and not Massachusetts [4]).

What is it with Google?

I've set up my site so that Google will index each individual entry [5], and
yes, the Googlebot [6] is pulling up individual entries, so why can't Google
match the advertising better? I thought the whole point of AdSense was
targetted text based ads.

[1] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2005/03/21.1
[2] http://www.google.com/ads/
[3] http://www.fl.gov/
[4] http://www.mass.gov/
[5] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2003/08/14.1
[6] http://www.google.com/bot.html

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