--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Susan" wrote: > > At the top of my FFL message board for the last 2 weeks > are frequent ads for L Ron Hubbard's web site. Do others > have this happening? Is this selective advertising where > they consider FFL people a good audience? If so, they > are way off base.
Possibly not, according to the algorithms that run Google's ad placement. They would figure, "Once a sucker, always one." After all, consider Buck's bragging about how many spiritual teachers, healers, "saints," etc. come to Fairfield. Why do you think they DO that...for the weather? They come to Fairfield because they know that they have a substantial audience with a proven history of paying money (and often substantial sums of money) for Anything Supposedly Spiritual. I wouldn't be surprised if the Google algorithms made the same decisions. I don't seen any ads because I use Ad-Blocker, so I can't comment on any that might appear. But I do know that no humans are in the loop when deciding on their placement. It's all statistics, and assessments of who might be the most likely target audiences for the products involved. I know that they parse the content of groups like this looking for keywords, and then choose matching ads for placement. Possibly a number of the posts made here recently about $cientology have triggered the ads you're seeing. That and the fact that the Co$ is in a state of panic right now, and has radically increased its advertising.
