Boarding a Plane or Boarding a Horse?

September 5th, 2007 • Related • Filed Under

I am used to Google Adsense providing really well-targeted ads. It’s almost scary how good Google is with these kinda things. It’s kinda refreshing sometimes to see the almighty Google being totally off track. I am ready to leave for a trip tomorrow and United Airlines emailed me asking to check in online. The email is clearly travel related, but when I saw the Google Adsense ads in my GMail account, I was not so sure anymore. Look at the screenshot and judge for yourself how close Google did get (or better: how far they were off). I tested this a couple of times through-out the day and the results were consistently bad the entire day from 2 different computers in 2 different locations.

Since I am on different planes for the next 16 hours I will work offline and pre-write articles for my different websites. This is a great way for me to work without being interrupted by email, phone or IM. Just curious to see if the people around will try to see what I am working on. I bought a 3M privacy filter for my screen and hopefully that will reduce the visibility for preying eyes. ;)



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