Regarding CP Advertisements
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I recently posted this[^] message in the Lounge. Only a few minutes after that and I am being presented with advertisements related to piano/keyboards from Amazon. I rarely see any advertisements which are not related to any software products here on CP. And this is particularly astonishing because previously, I hadn't seen any ad on CP for a piano/keyboard, or any musical instrument, for that matter. :OMG: The part I am wondering is, how did that happen? Apart from the posted form (that too, at most once), I don't think the word "piano" appeared anywhere else, so that the Google ad generator(?) would pick it up. Is this something done by CodeProject? Does CP provide regular "feeds" based on member messages? :confused: Originally posted here[^].
You have just been Sharapova'd.
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I recently posted this[^] message in the Lounge. Only a few minutes after that and I am being presented with advertisements related to piano/keyboards from Amazon. I rarely see any advertisements which are not related to any software products here on CP. And this is particularly astonishing because previously, I hadn't seen any ad on CP for a piano/keyboard, or any musical instrument, for that matter. :OMG: The part I am wondering is, how did that happen? Apart from the posted form (that too, at most once), I don't think the word "piano" appeared anywhere else, so that the Google ad generator(?) would pick it up. Is this something done by CodeProject? Does CP provide regular "feeds" based on member messages? :confused: Originally posted here[^].
You have just been Sharapova'd.
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I recently posted this[^] message in the Lounge. Only a few minutes after that and I am being presented with advertisements related to piano/keyboards from Amazon. I rarely see any advertisements which are not related to any software products here on CP. And this is particularly astonishing because previously, I hadn't seen any ad on CP for a piano/keyboard, or any musical instrument, for that matter. :OMG: The part I am wondering is, how did that happen? Apart from the posted form (that too, at most once), I don't think the word "piano" appeared anywhere else, so that the Google ad generator(?) would pick it up. Is this something done by CodeProject? Does CP provide regular "feeds" based on member messages? :confused: Originally posted here[^].
You have just been Sharapova'd.
We use Google's AdX system as a remnant provider if we have no ads suitable for showing, and given that AdX runs almost everyone on the 'net there's a good chance it has picked up your interest in pianos from another site. There's a chance that Google indexed that forum page, saw "piano" in it, and added that to its signals on what ad to show, but I couldn't tell you. We don't provide Google feeds of data - it slurps it all up like a ravenous beast itself.
cheers Chris Maunder
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We use Google's AdX system as a remnant provider if we have no ads suitable for showing, and given that AdX runs almost everyone on the 'net there's a good chance it has picked up your interest in pianos from another site. There's a chance that Google indexed that forum page, saw "piano" in it, and added that to its signals on what ad to show, but I couldn't tell you. We don't provide Google feeds of data - it slurps it all up like a ravenous beast itself.
cheers Chris Maunder
Ah, that explains some weird stuff I've seen.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello