Foreign Perspectives

Some of the links that come up on websites are pretty peculiar, don’t you think?

Now, I can understand where they’re coming from when a google ad appears on the blog that’s related to France. After all, I have written a fair amount about France in the past. But hold on: since I’m not writing much about it now, how come google is putting ads on the site that relate to France so often? It shouldn’t be what I wrote about in the past that’s relevant but what’s on the page with the ad right now. Except that often it isn’t.

In a similar vein, the pages being picked up by Reuters are something of a mystery. They’re using some variant of a keyword sieve to select the articles so it’s understandable that my article titled As seen on Reuters is the most “popular”. Similarly those with financial type words in the title have been picked up too, or at least some of them have. Trying to work out what they are looking for will while away many an hour over the Winter I expect.

And then there’s the people who have selected this blog to advertise on. Goodness knows what they are looking for as it’s a complete mystery to me!