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testing ad sense and sensibility

after debating the merits for nine months and occasionally coming to the conclusion that i wasn't going to do it, i've decided to test google's adsense on the conflux and {bio,medical}informatics portions of the site. i think they work well on the informatics section, less so on conflux, although the selection of obesity-related ads are amusing given the topic of the current post. i may or may not turn on ads here, but it's unlikely.

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6/12/2004 11:14:00 PM 2 comments

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Sounds like a good idea to me. There's exactly zero chance that I'll ever again click on an Adsense ad, so you finally prompted me to get around to seeing what it takes to persuade WinXP to use a hosts file (Start, Run, msconfig, Services, uncheck DNS Client, reboot, edit Windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts, add 127.0.0.1 pagead2.googlesyndication.com). Now your advertising is that much more targeted!

By Phil Ringnalda, at 3:13 AM

ha! why stop there?

this is more of an experiment than anything else. it's hard for me to imagine how the adsense ads are "effective" for anyone. i almost never notice them anymore and have never clicked on one.

but is it fair? that's the real question.

By e3, at 9:38 AM

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