{"id":95,"date":"2005-04-08T21:12:14","date_gmt":"2005-04-09T01:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/2005\/04\/08\/google-takes-years-to-implement-si"},"modified":"2005-04-08T21:12:14","modified_gmt":"2005-04-09T01:12:14","slug":"google-takes-years-to-implement-simple-ad-filters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/2005\/04\/08\/google-takes-years-to-implement-simple-ad-filters\/","title":{"rendered":"Google takes years to implement simple ad filters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a851'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I hope I didn&#8217;t startle you, or make you think that they were remedying this situation in the near future.  I mention this only brecause <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dankohn.com\/archives\/000342.html\">Dan Kohn explained<\/a> recently another of the reasons why this is a problem.  The more frequent problem is that you don&#8217;t want ads highlighting competition for your own content, even if every one of your readers is loyal.<\/p>\n<p>And ads shouldn&#8217;t be boring; I&#8217;ve diligently recorded Every. Single. Ad. that I have seen appear on my site that was vaguely interesting (and not &#8220;award winning RSS reader and more!&#8221;), and it amounts to 4 different ads, 2 from the same source.  Ads for RSS readers might be interesting to people who have just heard of RSS last week&#8230; they&#8217;re not interesting to my readers because my site skeleton mentions RSS a lot.<\/p>\n<p>I could vastly improve the G-automatcher in providing ads my audience cares about, with just a few hints.  And the real point is that: not to think of ads as a &#8220;necessary evil&#8221; that gets slapped on by some <b>clumsy<\/b>, soulless third party, but as a &#8220;potential enhancement&#8221; that provides useful information to readers, through the limited frame of what advertisers make available.  <i>artwork out of garbage&#8230;<\/i> productive artwork, even.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hope I didn&#8217;t startle you, or make you think that they were remedying this situation in the near future. I mention this only brecause Dan Kohn explained recently another of the reasons why this is a problem. The more frequent problem is that you don&#8217;t want ads highlighting competition for your own content, even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[207],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indescribable"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}