I just finished up a post at Revenews on Google’s CPA moves inspired by Sam’s CostPerNews post.

After that Sam and I were doing some late night twittering and he made note that Twitter had sprung Adsense ads. I was floored.

Read the write-up here. I find the “targeting” interesting to say the least.

I posted what I figured were for sure “stop words”, like train wrecks and carnage, to see what Sam would get. I figured a PSA. Nope.

“@samharrelson- let’s try train wrecks, tragedy, death, horrible carnage..how does it like this?” and Sam get’s targeted with an advertisement along the line of- Are you gay and offers a link to take a quiz. Turn off that personal search Sam…

Then this twitter: Amazon, Amazon, Amazon. A trademarked term, you usually don’t see any returns for “Amazon” when searching Google.

- Sam gets nothing.

- I get an ad for: Take the Irish IQ Test: Take the St. Patty’s Quiz How Irish Are You? which led to “http://20questionquizzes.com/irish?category=irish&source=google”

Overall Impression

Sam gets Adsense ads in IE 7.0 AND FireFox. Also in Ubuntu.

I do not get ads (yet) in IE 7.0, I do get them in Flock.

The only difference I can tell in our IE configuration is Sam is using Windows Vista and I am using Windows XP. It could be Geo-targeted too.

More on this later…check your twittering and see what turns up. I really don’t mind them using ads to turn a buck, I really dislike how they place them under someone’s picture as if they were almost “endorsing” an ad. That bothers me.

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