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Thursday, April 14, 2005The bagpipes test
Welcome to Blog's usual Thursday night lineup of random links has been pre-empted. Instead, this post is going to be used to conduct a test of Google's advertising system.
This is only a test. BAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPIPES! "Dr. Tom," an occasional poster on the site, claims that a few inclusions of the word "BAGPIPES" will cause W2B's Google ads to display nothing but links to retail sites for the irritating musical instrument. Let's see if he's right. As a further test, I'm going to post a few BAGPIPE links. This site contains a list of links to BAGPIPErs from around the world. Wikipedia's entry on BAGPIPES can be found here. Apparently, there's a site out there dedicated to listing every appearance of BAGPIPES in modern cinema. BAGPIPES! BAGPIPES! BAGPIPES! ![]() Ok, that should do the trick. My hypothesis is that Google's roaming bots base ad content entirely on links. Last week, I ran links to two Star Wars-related sites and toy ads for the sci-fi series have clogged the blog ever since. If I had actually bothered to read the fine print in Google's contract, it would probably say as much but this is a much more interesting way to find out, wi? Ok, let's see what happens over the next few days. It's your move, Google bots.
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