Since the advent of contextual web-based advertisements, like Google’s AdSense, online content has undergone a massive shift. Creating content solely for the purpose of hanging a targeted ad next to an article has proved a successful formula for making a quick buck. At its worst, some of this content is essentially spam, and its purveyors [...]
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Tags: adsense, Advent, Advertisements, Assembly Line, Google, Massive Shift, online media, Purveyors, Risk, search engines, Search Results, Suppression, Web Based
As we move into the July Fourth holiday weekend, I am determined to shed my recent grumpiness over crappy mobile Web pages, ham-handed 2D code executions (I got a lot of mail on that one!) and the weirdness caused by tossing Google AdSense into any old mobile app. Here then, for a holiday respite from [...]
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Tags: adsense, Boosterism, Cheerleaders, Crankiness, Executions, Google, Grumpiness, Ham, Holiday Weekend, Insider, Legions, Mail, Mobile Web, Old Mobile, Patriotic, Patriotism, Pleasure, Respite From, Web Pages, Weirdness