Topic sensitive Google Ads

by David Safier

I was just looking at the Google Ads on the left side about one screen down. Four pages worth, if you click the arrow at the top, and very heavy with ads stressing services dealing with Racial Profiling, Immigration, Lawyers and Jobs. I think if we started posting about the "reptile brain" Republicans appeal to with their calls to people's deepest fears, we'd see ads for pet crocodiles the next day.

As a reminder about how this works, every time you click on one of those ads, you cost the advertiser a couple bucks, which, by the way, they're happy to pay, since it means someone loves them. And if you click on that big ol' pic of Sarah Palin that always seems to be hanging around on the right side of the blog, Newsmax is out a few more bucks, since it's a bigger ad. It's sort of like turning swords into plowshares.