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By: Electronic Monies Log

Electronic Monies Log — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 10:56:38 +0000

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By: Steroid News Stories and Contextual Ads | Steroid Report

Steroid News Stories and Contextual Ads | Steroid Report — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 05:47:00 +0000

[...] Arrington recently commented on this at TechCrunch: The problem with automated advertising on news sites has always been the placing of inappropriate [...]

By: Stately Bears Net

Stately Bears Net — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 00:56:17 +0000

Stately Bears Net…

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By: SteroidReport.com

SteroidReport.com — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 07:26:51 +0000

Several months ago, real pharmaceutical steroids were advertised in google ads accompanying articles and op-eds about the dangers of steroids and the irresponsibility of websites selling steroids. That was funny.

Victor Conte from BALCO likely made millions from Google Ads selling SNAC and ZMA that accompanied all the news stories reporting on his involvement, his prosecution, his imprisonment, etc. related to steroid scandal not to mention all the Barry Bonds stories connecting him to BALCO.

That is why Conte always has a big grin on his face.

By: SteroidReport.com

SteroidReport.com — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 07:19:16 +0000

Most of the google ads are no longer pharmaceutical steroids only OTC supplements with names that sound like steroids.

Google Adwords makes it difficult for advertisers to post ads with “steroid-related” keywords. (I was not allowed to sell a reference book named Anabolics 2007 about steroids.) So, advertisers intentionally misspell “steroids” to bypass keywords prohibited by Google.

By: Marco Gomes

Marco Gomes — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 14:33:25 +0000

A good solution to this is HUMAN POWERED contextualization. This is the difference of boo-box in front of other marketing tools.

Check it out http://boo-box.com

Humans make much less contextualization errors than computers. We all know that computers are completely dumb in subjetive contexts.

Sorry for bad english.

from Brazil, Marco Gomes
CTO of the boo-box team

By: dea jim

dea jim — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 13:25:43 +0000

for what it’s worth, those sites don’t sell steroids. any site advertising “legal steroids” is a scam. at this point many prohormones are no longer allowed to be sold otc, and steroids have been banned for quite a while.
sure, those ads may be inappropriate, but they’re not “trying to sell you the very steroids that the baseball commission is so upset about.”

By: Michael Mahemoff

Michael Mahemoff — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 12:18:31 +0000

This is a common problem, like if you search for mobile phone health alerts, you’ll get ads for mobile phones.

This is good news for the industry. It shows that for all the profit Google and major publishers make with ads, there are still glaring opportunities to improve and make the ads even more targeted.

By: Omer

Omer — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 11:25:43 +0000

This is VERY normal and all you can expect for a search/matching technology that has changed little from the original WebCrawler. Search engines and ad-systems that are built on it are basically matching word to word with some fancy hard coding to avoid things when it sticks out as in this case.

The way you get around that is to have the engines understand language. Understant the difference of ‘the party bombed’ meaning it sucked vs. it blew up into pieces.

Its called semantic based methods and it exists today (ex. http://www.hakia.com [i have nothing to do with them] ). Its yet not as mature enough but they are the way of the future for search and smart addssssssssss…

By: The Pageman

The Pageman — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 10:26:32 +0000

Isn’t that the point? Have two sides to every story?

By: Alan Wilensky

Alan Wilensky — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 07:35:45 +0000

24 hour tech gadget mall and duty free spaceport - bark !!!

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gamblert — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 02:21:31 +0000

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By: kidpurple

kidpurple — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 01:20:15 +0000

“serious news issues”

I’m a sports fan myself - but is this really “serious news”?

If it isn’t against the Adsense TOS - what makes it so inappropriate?

By: CAR

CAR — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 01:09:15 +0000

This is so true, i’ve seen this a lot but never really thought about it. I laughed sometimes at the things i saw on google ads.

By: fede

fede — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 23:21:58 +0000

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just contact me… fede -at- genteloca.com

By: Apple

Apple — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 22:56:04 +0000

DAAAAMNNN…..people wish Erick was fired.
Does anyone here like his off-topic blogs?

By: Pilmore

Pilmore — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 22:49:37 +0000

What’s next? Ads for plutonium next to stories about nuclear proliferation?

Bada-bing!
[crickets chirping]

He’ll be here all next week, ladies and gentlemen!

By: Massive Steriods

Massive Steriods — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 22:48:43 +0000

Barry Bond isn’t homerun record breaker. He full of battries and super human juices.

A homerun record breaker would be person who don’t use steriods.
Aaron Hank. He look pretty upset when he see Barry Bond killing his iconic frame and spoiling his baseball ego.

Remember the movie Rocky…
Ivan Drago is Berry Bonds
Aaron Hank is Rocky

If Aaron Hank was Young; he would compete Barry Bond’s blood juice. He would put fist fight. He would kill his homerun record. :/

By: CRA

CRA — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 22:46:36 +0000

This is one of the worst posts I have ever read on techcrunch. Shockingly bad.

By: Ryan Holiday

Ryan Holiday — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 22:29:58 +0000

You know what’s worse than bad contextual ads? Bad writing. Way to phone in an absolutely worthless post.

By: Adam Durfee

Adam Durfee — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 22:26:05 +0000

I’m just amused that the ad from Yahoo! Shopping in the LA Times example has steroids misspelled.

By: @7

@7 — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 22:22:37 +0000

Funny comments.

LOL… Charlie Arrington and Michael Arrington…
a horny rapist and murder of three show up Michael Arrington Picture.

By: Steve Ballmer

Steve Ballmer — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 22:21:20 +0000

… and I really liked Bonds!
I have personally been called a “CEO on Steroids” myself, but I assure you I am clean.

By: john

john — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 22:18:12 +0000

409 pages is a long report but I found it easy to skim by following the “next” search for “bonds.” Still 103 hits takes a bit.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 21:59:53 +0000

On a related note, I noticed Yahoo’s automated news pulling an even more egregious move a few months ago - mixed up _content_. They display a photo next to a story that I assume their algorithm “intelligently” chooses, if the story itself doesn’t have a photo. There was a photo of Michael Moore next to story about Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore. Oops.

While seemingly innocuous in this instance, one can easily imagine a story about “a rapist, Charlie Arrington” and a photo of Michael Arrington sidled up to the headline “Arrington raped and killed 3.” It’s a libel suit waiting to happen.