AdSense Gets Targeting All Wrong
Looks like Google AdSense has its ad targeting all wrong. I often get these when I visit blogs.
These are ads for online matrimonial site Jeevan Sathi.
Okay, I’m not in India, for one. And I’m not looking for a mate. Of course, if I were, I would stop blogging immediately and get out and have a social life. A real one (not the social media kind, duh!).
Maybe Jeevan Sathi forgot to use the AdWords country targeting feature.
Then again, there are probably a lot of people outside of the Indian subcontinent who are looking for prospective spouses online. But still I would rather go to a simple social networking site, where people don’t explicitly say they’re looking for spouses online, to make friends and go the usual courtship, engagement, and marriage route. Okay, the concepts of arranged marriages and browsing classifieds for prospective brides/grooms just comes as such a culture shock for me.
Hey, I’m usually logged into my Gmail account. Maybe Google can use that for customer preference tracking. If Google was so good at what it does, then they should track user searches and monitor email correspondence so it really knows what stuff I’m looking to buy or do online. Maybe AdWords users would find that really cool.
I’m not giving Google an evil idea, am I?
i think as a good person
anika jabeen said this on February 26, 2008 4:20 am