Comments on: Adsense ramblings http://kevinchiu.org/archives/adsense-ramblings Things are only impossible until they're not. Wed, 28 Jul 2010 08:47:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Karen Hayes http://kevinchiu.org/archives/adsense-ramblings/comment-page-1#comment-750 Karen Hayes Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:36:47 +0000 http://www.kevinchiu.org/blog/?p=105#comment-750 i love google Adsense, it enables me to earn money on the websites and forums that i have put up several years ago. if you got tons of websites, you can earn a lot from Adsense alone i love google Adsense, it enables me to earn money on the websites and forums that i have put up several years ago. if you got tons of websites, you can earn a lot from Adsense alone

]]> By: David Chen http://kevinchiu.org/archives/adsense-ramblings/comment-page-1#comment-36 David Chen Tue, 11 Apr 2006 06:23:00 +0000 http://www.kevinchiu.org/blog/?p=105#comment-36 There's always people like me; use Firefox, aware of Adblock, but will not use it unless the ad is annoying. I appreciate the sites that I do frequent and do not want them going away, so I do not block ads by default.<br/><br/>That said, ads are not necessarily a <em>bad</em> thing. That is why you have the classified section in newspapers, where people willingly go through a lot of ads. The trick is getting relevant and <em>useful</em> advertisements.<br/><br/>I believe that is Google's route; collecting enough information about you that it can finally serve ads that you actually want to see. That is also why Google tries to maintain such moral high ground—their strategy requires an unprecedented level of trust with your data.<br/><br/>AdSense comes nowhere close, and it does not deal with the problem of false advertising, which I think is huge. There is <em>one</em> kind of ad that I enjoy seeing without specifically seeking it out, and that is the personal recommendation of a product from someone that has tried it an whom I trust. I predict a social model of advertising where ads can be voted upon and then served in a very targetted basis using the tons of data Google collects on you. There’s always people like me; use Firefox, aware of Adblock, but will not use it unless the ad is annoying. I appreciate the sites that I do frequent and do not want them going away, so I do not block ads by default.

That said, ads are not necessarily a bad thing. That is why you have the classified section in newspapers, where people willingly go through a lot of ads. The trick is getting relevant and useful advertisements.

I believe that is Google’s route; collecting enough information about you that it can finally serve ads that you actually want to see. That is also why Google tries to maintain such moral high ground—their strategy requires an unprecedented level of trust with your data.

AdSense comes nowhere close, and it does not deal with the problem of false advertising, which I think is huge. There is one kind of ad that I enjoy seeing without specifically seeking it out, and that is the personal recommendation of a product from someone that has tried it an whom I trust. I predict a social model of advertising where ads can be voted upon and then served in a very targetted basis using the tons of data Google collects on you.

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