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August 08, 2004
Google's not as smart as it thinks it is
I decided to try putting Google ads on this blog. I don't imagine myself making any money off of this; mostly I'm just interested in seeing what ads appear in response to the content.
Well, the very first ad I saw was one from the RNC. I guess Google thought it was the most relevant ad to go along with my Protesting the Republican National Convention entry. Heh. While I wouldn't want to make any money by getting people to sign up with the RNC, I wouldn't mind costing the RNC a lot of money by having people click-through and then not do anything. In fact, someone could create a bot and run it on some server farm to find RNC/Bush ads all over the web and click through multiple times. Ramp it up and you could not only charge them lots of money for online advertising, but also DOS their servers. Not that I'm advocating any of this, of course.
Posted by glyphic at August 8, 2004 01:45 PM