It turns out I wasn't getting rich quick enough with the Amazon links here on The JimH Blog. I get a kickback every time you buy anything at Amazon if you go through my book or CD links, but the traffic volume hasn’t allowed me to retire quite yet.
Not to fear, I’ve upped the ante by including Google AdSense ads in the left-hand column right under Recent Posts. You start making money for me just by clicking on those ads. Signing up didn’t cost me a thing. What a deal.
But that's not the most interesting part. The Google engine uses sophisticated A.I. technology to decide just which ads to display. The goal is to provide ads that seem appropriate to the site. This makes sense. Google doesn't want to annoy the website owner by showing inappropriate ads. More importantly, Google wants you to click on the ad so, making the assumption that you arrived at this site because of some particular interest, it tries to show other similar items which, in theory, might also interest you.
What fun. My blog is all over the map, so what will Google choose? It might have changed by the time you see this, but as I type the ads have titles like "UFO Video – Is it Real?" and "Want to see Real Ghosts?"
What's going on, here? Well, a recent blog entry was about Satellite photography. Good try, Google. And what the heck, I’ve always wondered if ghosts were real…
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