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There are some services that do serve ads based on what you searched for, like Chitika and DynamicOxygen. They're similar to contextual ads, but only show up when you arrive at the site through a search engine, and the ads are based on your search terms instead of the content on the page.

Some of the most irrelevant "contextual" ads I've seen are geneology ones on my blog post titled, "Absolute, Relative, and Root-relative URLs", and on posts where I talk about parent and child elements. When I looked just now, though, I saw an ad for headphones, probably because I bought a Bluetooth headset on Amazon a few days ago. This seems to be more and more common, and I'm always seeing ads on FB for products I've recently looked at online.

These kinds of ads make sense. When I go to the same sites every day, I don't even look at the areas where I know the ads are, so most of the clicks would be coming from people coming in from search engines anyway. But when I'm searching for something and the link I click on doesn't have the answer, an ad that's relevant to my search might catch my eye.

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4/23/2014, 10:19 pm Link to this post PM Lesigner Girl Read Blog
 
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I should probably add that I used Google to search for headsets and headset reviews, so they might not have gotten that information from Amazon.

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I'm constantly using Google to search things and find it hilarious that once I search on something, many of my side ads for different Facebook pages will have something related to my search...
They sure do know how to 'follow' you around, don't they?

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I'm sure it's a good thing for some people that FB doesn't allow porn ads. Imagine someone's embarrassment if they wanted to show their spouse something on FB and an ad like that suddenly appeared. emoticon


Edit: Accidentally typed "someone" when I meant "something."

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 emoticon TOTALLY! Or show my Mother.... emoticon

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Lol. My mom doesn't know their ads are related to things we've searched for, and I don't think she'd care if I searched for porn. emoticon

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Kind of makes me wish my mom never will learn to use computer/internet.

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LMAO! You naughty boy. emoticon

The good news is that FB and Google supposedly don't serve porn ads, and if they serve any of those risqué gaming ads, you can just claim someone told you about one of those games and you Googled it to see what they were talking about. emoticon

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You can also say some advertisers use irrelevant keywords to get more people to see their ads. This is actually a stupid practice, since they're not reaching their target audience that way, but it does happen.

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