Google, you can do better..
Sunday, July 5, 2015 at 10:51PM Last week, I was trying to look up old posts to link to something I was writing.
Three for three, the Google ads on the right sidebar were something like this..
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My first thought was "hey, don't I know the woman in the top picture? have seen her somewhere before!"
Then realized that it is exactly the same ad where I had seen her before. the mind is a funny thing. It makes these associations.
Yes. I agree. There IS a "sweet Asian Woman I should be with" and she has a name already.. Sangeetha!
If Google was smart enough, it would have figured it out.
On the bright side, they have figured out the right demographic based on my travel habits. For a good six months they were showing ads for the "sweet Russian woman I should be with". Sooner or later they will zero in on "Indian woman I should be with", then figure out I am already with a sweet woman and finally pitch me something else. Or so one hopes..
For crying out loud, there are very few things that are interesting to me right now Google. My life is an open blog!
Work, Home and Bikram Yoga
If it is work, pitch me things that will make travel a breeze (doesn't have to be sweet Asian women.. that is taking it to an extreme)
If it is home, it has to be "back to school" related.. pitch me something that I will be tempted to buy for the kids or for myself, which is restricted to food and photography (don't bother with the Nikon ads either. You should have figured out that I am too deeply invested in Canon to move now after 25 years). As for buying things for the "sweet girl", she would rather buy it herself. So you have to work a little harder and pitch me those things based on what she is checking out online. A little help there would be nice!
If it is Yoga, then you know what you can pitch.
It IS really that simple!
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Reader Comments (1)
couple of points:
- sooner or later, google will come up with a button to help westerners properly pronounce sundar ;-)
http://www.sundar72.com/travelog/2013/6/23/name-onic.html
- google does not display ads for YOUR benefit; it displays them for the benefits of those who read your blog. so, if you talk a lot about bharat natyam, i bet there will be ads about that. In other words, just because you are already with a "sweet Asian Woman I should be with" does not mean that everyone on your blog is with one! so, google is trying to display photos to see what kind of woman those readers might prefer ... influenced by your posts of course ;-)
- s.b.