On 2005-12-30 07:35:00, Anonymous wrote:
Trouble is, some of the things Google has decided to try to sell to me include ALA, Robert Land Academy, RedCliff Ascent, and WWASP. I don't know how it does it but it seems to try to guess what you are interested in by the page you are looking at. Right now it thinks I am into WWF wrestling."
Yeah, Google has got some hot shit AI going on there. I've thought about this for a long time, put it off, I'll think about it tomorrow, la te dah. Then I checked out Charlie King's take on it and I think he's probably right. I think those industry ads showing up in this context are probably not helping their business; it's like a defaced billboard or something. But they have to pay anyway. Christ on a crutch, with the amount of traffic this site gets, they'll probably see an increase in advertising bills by the middle of next month (as I understand the billing cycle).
I've never looked into the advertiser end of it. I wonder if they can block fornits.com from their end?
Who knows. I'll just wait and see how this plays out. Oh, btw, Bill said he'd resign if I upgrade to the new PhpBB. And he's got some very valid points there. I think it's high time for an overhaul, though. This layout absolutely sucks great sweaty donky balls! It's damned near impossible to work on. But we just have so damned many custom features not present in the new release. And there is some degree of security through obscurity, after all. We actually did dodge a total wipe out one time. Not just the forums, but a hack that would have blown out everything under Fornits, including some of my customers' sites, if we hadn't mangled the code already.
So I think I'll just start doing a bit of tweaking and fix what I got.
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I turned to speak to God, About the world's despair; But to make bad matters worse, I found God wasn't there.
--Robert Frost, American poet