The Ads on this site...
Offline I get that they are somewhat targeted, but I am surprised at how many pro-religion (or religious dating site) ads there are. It doesn't bother me, really, but damn, someone at google isn't doing a very good job.
My work has a lot to do with data dissemination, and the tools out there to find keywords and send appropriate data are pretty sophisticated. Google is clearly lumping all things with religious keywords together and disregarding words that would clearly put us in the 'extremely unlikely to buy religious crap' camp.
Not only is that an epic fail for such a money making data-oriented force, but it smacks of prejudice at worst, or a blind disregard at best.
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...and that's after we already have added the top 200 religious advertisers on to our block list. The max on the block list is 200.
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This has been done to death but anyway..
And speak for yourself, I am completely fascinated as to why some christian businesses fail when others succeed. Finally I can be rich with god's help.
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Marketing.
I wasn't being serious. Although I'm sure another answer would be because sitting back and waiting for god to bless your business isn't the best economics.
Psalm 14:1 "the fool hath said in his heart there is a God"-From a 1763 misprinted edition of the bible
Argument from Sadism: Theist presents argument in a wall of text with no punctuation and wrong spelling. Atheist cannot read and is forced to concede.
Wouldn't it be better if this web site were grouped with science and technology ? The advertisements would at least be interesting.
A lot of this targeted sort of ad distribution is based on keywords, actually..
Also, I think it's important for two reasons..
It certainly hasn't gone unnoticed, as pointed out in previous threads, but this really seems to me to be a case of prejudice.
let me highlight...
that doesn't particularly care
Meaning they don't have a 'freethinkers' or 'athiest' category. One in six Americans that use the internet fall into that category. Hardly a tiny volume of clicks (when you disregard individual sites). Religious websites get roughly comprable traffic, no doubt, and they have targeted ads.
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I don't know about interesting, but some of the sites the ads point to now are funnier than ... well, hell! LOL
I figured you were being facetious.
I'm sure no amount of prayer to nor any influence by an imaginary supernatural beastie has anything to do with the success or failure of any business.
I wonder what those christian companies would think if they were being advertised on an atheist site...? I don't know how the whole ad banner thing works but if google counts this site as a a"hit" for the ad being placed, wouldn't the christian company think it to be wasted..?
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Not to make this discussion too bleak, but one thing that cracks me up is screen shots of news articles online that have adds that are about the article in a twisted way. One I remember was a news story about a boy being burned by gasoline and the add was about how you should by a grill. Another was and news story about racism after Katrina and the add was about bleach and reaching a "pure standard of whiteness" in clothing. The keyword based adds give some very odd combinations of adds and webpages.
"You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours."
British General Charles Napier while in India