When I clicked on this article from this FPP, I got 3 Google text ads, 2 of which are directed at personal information about me. So I signed out of Google, cleared my cache, history, cookies, etc., and clicked on the link again. Same ads. How? [more inside]
posted by desjardins on Sep 4, 2009 - 27 answers

Two tech questions: I've just started running into a weird message when I try to go to a page on the ABC News page: This Account Has Been Suspended Please contact the billing/support department as soon as possible. and this is the URL I was reading a NYT story earlier today that mentioned Lamda at the very end of the story. Cleared the cookies, shut down and restarted both browsers (IE and Firefox) but keep getting the same message. Separately, lately when I read certain blogs, I am suddenly taken to a Google images search page; the original pages' URL shows up in the search field and the message is that the URL can't be found. I cannot seem to get rid of this problem. All ideas welcome, and thanks.
posted by etaoin on May 19, 2009 - 5 answers

What are the approximate income/pageview rates for the most popular type of online advertising? [more inside]
posted by 2bucksplus on Nov 1, 2007 - 5 answers

What specific URLs feed the google text ads on my webforum, so that I may unblock them in order to solve my 5 minute page load problems? [more inside]
posted by lazaruslong on Nov 14, 2006 - 6 answers

Are Google ads a good use for my very limited advertising dollars? If not, what works? I'm trying to promote a small science museum and I need help primarily with online marketing. [more inside]
posted by mygothlaundry on Sep 27, 2006 - 12 answers

Calling all webmasters that display Google ads -- how much do you, in your own experience, make from them? And to put it in context, how busy is your site and what is the essence of it, primarily? (blog, forum, fun DB, static page, etc) I have thought about slipping ads into my websites, but I'm not sure it's worth it just to earn 47 cents.
posted by rolypolyman on Dec 20, 2005 - 17 answers

Google thinks I'm cheating them, what should I do? [more inside]
posted by jefgodesky on Oct 3, 2005 - 8 answers

Google Adsense Secrets: Is this ebook worth buying? (I really want to know, I'm not shilling for it.) [more inside]
posted by o2b on Jul 19, 2005 - 12 answers

Hopefully this hasn't been asked yet... my Google toolbar is seemingly less able to block popups like it did before. This is happening at home and work. What's the reason and what's a more efficient blocker? Is this happening to anyone else?
posted by moonbird on May 18, 2004 - 15 answers

Is there a Google Adsense-like service out there that serves web ads (preferrably text, but banners are OK), given keywords from the hosting web page? [yes, more inside] [more inside]
posted by costas on Feb 5, 2004 - 6 answers