Thursday, September 28, 2006

More More about...

Hmm. These 'More about...' links are REALLY interesting. What makes them come up? They're new to me. These from 'draft'.

More about...

More about...

Not sure what these links are all about, but I'm excited about the one for Hamster Care »!

It came up off of the title 'What do I care?'

Wednesday, September 27, 2006

Dumb without exception

I'm having a conversation about relationships with a friend? Can you imagine the Gmail ads that come up? You don't have to:

Huggable Hunk on Campus

My Guy Pillow Is Available For You When Your Guy Can't or Won't

Think Like A Guy

Learn How to Understand Men - Tips Get Your Instant Download Here!

Know The Secret To Men?

Learn The "Secret Psychology" To Getting A Man Hooked For Good

Are you in Love?

If you're asking this question Here's what you need to know

Understand Love Signals?

Are you sending the right signals? This PhD Test will let you know!

Are You A Shy Guy?

How To Meet Beautiful Women. Never Feel Shy Or Lonely Again.
ArtOfApproaching.com/Shyness

Not Into You? Here's Why

Learn "Secret Reason" Why You're Attracted To Jerks & Players
TakeBackYourHeart.com

Your Name Is No Accident

See Why the Amazing Truth of Your Numerology Chart Cannot Tell A Lie

Which is dumber? Think like a guy or numerology? I mean, really: who wants to think like a guy?

Eureka! I have found it!

I really don't know what word keyed this:

Bidet Toilet Attachment

Convert any toilet quickly & easily Models starting around $80 USD!

What do I care?

What do people think of
your life?
Find out if they are impressed.

Back to politics

Whoa. Didn't know Hispanics were against CNN. Should *I* be?!

hispanicsagainstcnn.com

hispanics against cnn
hispanics cnn

Jon Stewart for President

Buy the t-shirt,
endorse the candidate!

lefties

- after you read this there will be one less of them. One more of us.

Tuesday, September 26, 2006

Ok, here's another one keyed to 'Jim'

Had Enough Jim McCrery?

You are not alone.
Chester Kelley is the alternative.

I have no idea who Jim McCrery  or Chester Kelley are. But I do know that's 2 different ads so far off of the word 'Jim'.

Monday, September 25, 2006

Now if only I had a wireless land lease...

Cash for Cell Tower Lease

Convert your wireless land lease to Cash without selling your property!

Is EVERYONE against the BSA?

Phew. Different BSA...

Contacted by the BSA?

Experienced counsel to defend your company against the BSA.

Interesting: that URL has a slash. They usually don't...

Better living through consumption!

Did you know you can achieve deeper meditation with stuff you can buy from a catalog? Me neither...

Attain Deeper Meditation.

Live a life less ordinary. Isabella has inspiration for meditation.

Friday, September 22, 2006

Do they sound like cheerleaders to you?

My baby brother's getting married tomorrow. Hurray! I have it in my Google Calendar, so the default reminder came this morning. (Not like I was going to forget it!)

Kristy is the bride and new aunt. Our best guess is that 'Cory and Kristy' produced these four ads:

Cheerleader Videos

Free Cheerleader Videos No Wait - Watch Instantly!

Cheerleading Ringtone

Send this ringtone to your phone right now!
RingRingMobile.com

Free Cheerleading DVD

Instructional Video. From Beginning To Advanced Stunts. Survey Req.
Learning-Offer.com

Cheek Cheers

Cheer on the Team with New Body Cheerz!

On top of it all, that first one might be a little sketchy (and I'm not clicking through to find out!).

Thursday, September 21, 2006

Offer expires today!

Geez, I better get right on that. Wonder if they re-sign that ad up every day...

Free Microsoft Word 2003

Need a Free Word Processor? Offer Expires today!

Maybe I'll just have to start sending myself emails like 'Bananas!'

I often use Gmail as a reminder system for myself. So I sent myself an email with the subject 'crackers!' this morning. Got some lovely results below.

If I ever get hard up for results, I can prime the pump this way.

Christmas Crackers

Delivered direct to your door Quality, Design and Service

Incomplete Cracker Finder

Find incomplete crackers inside sealed packs, without using x-ray

Buy Ritz Crackers

Great Selection - Get 5% back Free shipping with minimum purchase

Cheese & Gourmet Gifts

Free Shipping Special! Quality Gourmet Gift Baskets

I wonder what that incomplete cracker thing is all about...

Not sure what the cues were here...

but the results are funny.

How to Live

If you like Richard Dawkins, I think you'll like this blog.

What if you hate Richard Dawkins?

One World

A New World Order could arrive almost overnight.

Like a thief in the night, baby. Apocalypse by any other name...

Wednesday, September 20, 2006

Protectionists of the world, unite!

'Chinese' elicits:

Chinese Manufacturing

Turnkey Electronic/Mechanical Assembly - Tooling - Components

Outsourcing to China

Free Report - Avoid the Seven Deadly Dangers of Outsourcing

China Manufacturing

Low Cost, High Quality Reliable American Management

Be sure to get that  'reliable American management'...

Circular Google ad goodness

I email my posts to Blogger from Gmail. And I copy Christine so she can keep up on my posts without surfing to those weblogs or using an aggregator. So we're getting major circular contextual ads. The '4-chambered piggy bank ' post elicited:

Potty training children

Learn how to potty train your child. Visit Pull-Ups today.

2006 CuteKid of The Year

Easily Submit Your Baby Photos Win Cash & Prizes. Free Membership!

More cowbell...

brings up more More cowbell ads:

We feature the original "More Cowbell" tshirt. All sizes!
'More Cowbell' T-Shirt
The original 'More Cowbell' T-shirt on sale now!

Thanks to Christine for sending these in.


Apparently, teaching nerdy make users of Gmail...

how to meet women is a growth industry. Got served these on the 'Stop chasing women' post:

Attracting Women Tips

Meet Beautiful Women.
Never Feel Lonely Again.
ArtOfApproaching.com/AttractWomen

Be Social

Finally, learn how to communicate with women!

Testify!

Not sure why I got served this ad...

A 4-Chambered Piggy Bank

The Money Savvy Pig is the piggy bank for the 21st century.

But, I can testify that it's a really great product. We have these and really like them.

The 4 chambers are Save, Spend, Donate and Invest. Great visual object lesson. Your child gets a dollar. Break it into dimes. Have them put 1 in Save, 1 in Donate, 1 in Invest, and then they can decide how to allocate the remaining 7. Or you can decide together. Great way to teach about money and to regularize your family's values. (Now, if only you adults would do so well... ;-)

Now, I'm not real concerned about teaching 7 year-olds to invest as long as they are learning to Donate and Save. Plus, at our house, so far, they want to save up for American Girls and Nintendo games, so there's not much immediate Spending.

The body polygraph

File under: too good to pass up:

Body Language Lies

Expose Liars Quickly Using Their Body Language, Learn Online Today

Slacker mom

I got this ad this morning and asked Christine if she'd seen it. She said 'Yeah, I get that all the time.' I said 'Have you clicked through?' and she said 'No'.

So, this ad didn't work on Christine ;-)

Are You a Slacker Mom?

15 fun question that will tell you what type of parent you are!

Tuesday, September 19, 2006

Essays on puberty

Wil wrote an essay for the Greatest Grandparents of South Carolina essay contest. Got served these two crazy ads:

Looking for an Essay?

We've got thousands.
Every Topic - Instant Download

Honor this Special Time

Puberty can be a tough time for parents too. Chinaberry can help.

That essay site is pretty bad. I'm a little surprised Google serves it.

If my daughter was approaching puberty, I don't think that Chinaberry site would be much help...

But they really love me in Brazil!

I got an email from Orkut saying some guy named Lee has written in my scrapbook, so I get:

Amy Lee - Evanescence

New CD from Amy Lee's Evanescence Coming 10/3. Check it out here!

Stop chasing women!

I think the offending word in this email was 'women':

Stop Chasing Women

Learn How To Quickly And Easily Stop Chasing Women

Mention SNL in your email...

get served two ads for More Cowbell tshirts:

More Cowbell T-shirts

Gotta have more cowbell T-shirts for $9.99

More Cowbell T Shirt

Original More Cowbell T Shirts All Colors + Crazy Free Stickers!

More conservative propaganda

People feel passionately enough about this stuff to buy AdWords.

Or, they want to draw like-minded individuals they can serve more ads to and generate more revenue.

How The Left Was Won

The Tools & Methodologies Liberals Use to Undermine Our Society

Conservative Blacks

Share ideas w/conservative blacks and other nonwhite Americans.
newcoalition.org

Liberal {sneer}

Just having the word 'liberal' in your email triggers this ad:

John Stossel - Free Book

Get "Myths, Lies, and Downright Stupidity" free from CBC today!
www.ConservativeBookClub.com

John Stossel - your source for the truth, folks!

Denied!

Google denied me an AdSense account. Here's the email:

Hello Sean,

Thanks for your interest in Google AdSense. While reviewing your
application, we noticed that you're using Google Brand Features,
including Google trademarks, logos, web pages, screen shots, or other
distinctive features on your site or in your URL.

As a result, we're unable to accept you into the AdSense program for
the time being.

If you manage or own another site on which you'd like to display Google
ads, you can resubmit your application with the new site. Simply log in
to http://www.google.com/adsense using the email address and password
you submitted with your application, update your account information,
and click 'Resubmit'. We'll then reconsider your application to run ads
on that specific site.

Thank you for your understanding.

Sincerely,

The Google AdSense Team

It's funny. I felt shame at first. I have issues ;-)

The email was polite enought...

And I understand where they're coming from. Not that I was trying to game the system. But they have to really watch click fraud.

Hmm. Must think about this some more...

Shocking secret!

No survey of Gmail ads would be complete without this one that I've seen a lot:

Up all night blogging?

A shocking secret big coffee co's don't want you to know.
www.coffeefool.com

Not that I've ever clicked through. And I don't think I'd be that shocked...

Monday, September 18, 2006

Watch out Lying Liberals

And another one is like it:

Watch out Lying Liberals

It's time for the Truth Conservative Comebacks
www.conservativecomebacks.com

By the way, both of these last two keyed off of a conversation that had 'Republican' in it.

Why Mommy is a Democrat

This one's too good to pass up:

Why Mommy is a Democrat

If you don't tell your children why you're a Democrat, then who will?
littledemocrats.net

CIA!

Great day! The CIA is placing themselves at the top of the ad list for this one:

CIA Clandestine Careers

Spanish Language Careers. Hiring Now, Apply Online Today.
www.CIA.gov

I won't tell you on this one what it came up on, but maybe I should check it out!

Jim

Whoa. That's pretty serious. I get an email from my friend, Jim, and get this ad:

Jim McCrery Must Go

18 Years is Long Enough Louisiana Needs A New Congressman

www.chesterkelley.com

That means they paid to put an ad on every email with the name, Jim, right? Not that it cost a lot, but that's a pretty wide swath...

Sunday, September 17, 2006

Gmail Sponsored Links feedback

I noticed that Gmail Ads now include a 'feedback ' link that produces an AJAXy pop-up with the following copy:

I think these Sponsored Links are (check all that apply):

Include email text to help improve sponsored links in Gmail (preview)
You can help us improve the usefulness of sponsored links like these by including your email text with your feedback. This will send the text of the message(s) in this conversation, with names and email addresses of senders and recipients removed, to Google. All information you provide will be used in accordance with Gmail's privacy policy. Thanks for helping!

That's a good addition. I've only used it once so far.

Sufjan...

in your Gmail returns the following ad:

So like Sufjan you do?

Organs, guitars, lonesome vocals from the NC woods - Day Action Band

www.dayactionband.com

Shouldn't that be 'So like Sufjan do you?'?

Man, I didn't plan on proofreading Google Ads, bu maybe that will come with this, too...

First post

Google ads interest me, especially in Gmail.

This is a test to see if:

1. There would be enough good, daily content for a weblog like this
2. I stay interest in posting to it.

So far, thinking about it for a while, I have stayed interested, so maybe this condition will persist.

If I stay interested, or if I feel like I want to, I plan on serving Google ads on this site, too, to increase the Googly Ad goodness.