Sorry.. I had to blog about this.
I was reading forum today, and in one of the topic (called "Off-topic"), someone I knew posted a screen-shot of my site:
and commented: "I don't know what she's writing in her blog. (Just kidding!)"
Why does that happen? hehe.. I didn't even write anything relating to porn anywhere in my blog. (I think.. :P) Oh yeah.. there was one time I wrote about a (so-called) s@x movie of a Burmese actress, and it not being true. (Oh yeah.. lots of Google Searches ended up at my site after that). And 2nd time was I wrote about Justin Timberlake's album. Could it be the reason? lolz
Another weird thing is I just viewed my site, but I don't see any Google ad at all. Could it be because I was logged in? Or maybe because I was viewing websites with proxy bypassing software? And I just saw a Chinese ad instead.
And Soju: no.. I'm not angry.. hehe.. I was going to write a proper reply to it, but I didn't want to post today (I wrote it but I deleted) because I wanted to keep my amount of posts no. as 1000, for a reason just for today. But that doesn't mean I won't bash you when I see you in chat. =P
Comments (4)
Well, it just shows how popular you are!
Yeah I question the ads that I see on my site also. At one time, (probably because I obsessively blog about Viggo Mortensen), I got an ebay ad for panties (printed with the name Viggo) on it. Got a chuckle of out them. That might have been the last time I blogged about Viggo.. ha ha
Actually, I thought the ads tbat show up don't have much to do with the blogger, but with the viewer itself. The ads adjust based on the viewer's search history. So whoever took that screenshot has been searching for a bit of porn, and is presumably obsessed with Feng Shui as well. :)
@Sweden_McDryjoke - Not necessarily. Search history trackers typically happen to people who don't have proper spyware protection. But other are context-based, such as typical Google ads. If something on a web page is even remotely related to an irrelevant subject, it could trigger Google to display an ad it thinks is relevant. For example: Dawn makes a post about videos. People often search for porn videos. Therefore, Google thinks the visitor to Dawn's article about videos might be interested in porn, and thus displays porn ads. (Which is true in my case, but not true in general.) Ads may also be delivered based on the viewer's location; Dawn was using a proxy bypass, and Google ads probably thought that she was from China and decided to display Chinese ads.