Targeted advertising
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I always thought targeting in advertising is the key to success. The logical conclusion is that advertisers target their ads (span doesn't count, it's cheaper to flood than target email). But apparantly I'm wrong. While reading arabic news site (with ME orientation) an ad for american classmates poped up. Assuming it wasn't Al-Qaeda recruitment scheme, what advertiser thought to put such ad on that site? Are those spyware cookies failing to record my behaviour and learn my preferences? Or all those spyware talking are things of the past?
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I always thought targeting in advertising is the key to success. The logical conclusion is that advertisers target their ads (span doesn't count, it's cheaper to flood than target email). But apparantly I'm wrong. While reading arabic news site (with ME orientation) an ad for american classmates poped up. Assuming it wasn't Al-Qaeda recruitment scheme, what advertiser thought to put such ad on that site? Are those spyware cookies failing to record my behaviour and learn my preferences? Or all those spyware talking are things of the past?
Felix Gartsman wrote: While reading arabic news site (with ME orientation) an ad for american classmates poped up. Guess it depends on who the average reader of that news site is. Might be a popular site for Americans to get the Arabic side of the story, who knows. I assume the site does it's advertising properly. Anyway. I had an odd one. A FORWARDED spam mail. The email even left in the forwarders email signature. Very odd.
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South AfricaColin Davies wrote: ...can you imagine a John Simmons stalker !