{"id":70,"date":"2005-07-06T12:32:39","date_gmt":"2005-07-06T18:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/wp\/?p=70"},"modified":"2005-07-06T12:32:39","modified_gmt":"2005-07-06T18:32:39","slug":"dumb_google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/?p=70","title":{"rendered":"Dumb Google"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If Google&#8217;s so smart, why are its ad links so stupid? I noticed this morning that one of the Ad Sense links in the Google box on this page read &#8220;Sexy Girls &#038; Sexy Guys.&#8221; That seemed kind of odd, given the depressingly nonerotic content of this blog, but then I realized that in a silly aside in my last post I used the word &#8220;thong.&#8221; Bingo. Such mismatches aren&#8217;t unusual for Google&#8217;s much-vaunted ad-serving service. In fact, it often seems almost entirely blind to context &#8211; like an idiot savant. That&#8217;s a vulnerability someone should exploit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Google&#8217;s so smart, why are its ad links so stupid?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}