Google's Idea of Contextual Advertising is Mighty Weird

As you know if you read this blog, either here or in an RSS feed, I'm a big supporter of President Obama. The post in the photo is praising Obama for putting his weekly address on YouTube. And if you click on the permanent link to the post, what you'll see is an ad for a group of right wing nutjobs called Citizens United, who are anti-Obama. Thanks Google, is that your idea of contextual advertising. It's definitely not mine.

Said Luke Armour in an email today: "Thought it was an interesting juxtaposition, the comedy and tragedy faces of Obama. Makes you wonder at all times, "do you know what Google is doing to your web pages?"

Sheesh!

I banned all the nuts' URLs, and realized that I need to pay closer attention to the Google ads on my blog. Sadly, their ad preview tool doesn't work on a Mac. Doh.

This reminds me of the article I wrote for Internet Day in 2000 with the headline "The Traditional Press Release is Dead". On that page: a huge ad for PR Newswire. :>)

I connect from Italy and on the same post I had and advertising banner in Italian about Obama Ringtone

Many affiliate marketers subtly use Google's contextual advertising for their own devices. For example you will often see many Paid Search Ads with the title, "Don't Buy This Product" or "Product X is a Scam". Then you go to the page, they talk negatively about the product and lo and behold you get served ads about the said product.