Forget disturbing search requests, how about “Disturbing Ad Requests?”

Third day [1], and already I'm leary about Google's AdSense [2].

Earlier today it wasn't serving up ads. At first, I thought they took exception to my critical stance towards them, or of the disclaimer I have just below their ads and dropped me. But no, I was still signed up. It's just that for a period of time, Google just … couldn't serve up ads.

How odd.

Then, when it was working again, what do I see? An add for “Diary Of An Anorexic Girl” followed by an ad for “Fleming's Steakhouse” (at least the steakhouse is in Florida [3] and not Massachusetts [4]).

What is it with Google?

I've set up my site so that Google will index each individual entry [5], and yes, the Googlebot [6] is pulling up individual entries, so why can't Google match the advertising better? I thought the whole point of AdSense was targetted text based ads.

[1] /boston/2005/03/21.1

[2] http://www.google.com/ads/

[3] http://www.fl.gov/

[4] http://www.mass.gov/

[5] /boston/2003/08/14.1

[6] http://www.google.com/bot.html

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