Yankee Tag Blog

I mentioned earlier the new Spamoscope project I’m working on with St.Ofle. The project entails publishing a gibberish spam message every day on our Spamoscope.com site. To offset the cost, we included a Google AdSense bar on the side of the page. AdSense works by “reading” the content on the site and trying to match ads to that content. For example, if you made a site about something called a “Yankee Tag” and wrote about Mexicana losing your luggage, you might see ads for luggage tags, Mexicana flights, and Yankee-themed products. While the algorithm isn’t perfect, I think it pairs ads to sites pretty intelligently.

The beauty of the Spamoscope site is that the content is extremely random. Which makes the ads extremely random and (although odd) typically well-targeted to the site. Today I looked at the site and noticed that the predominate themes in the Spamoscope were violence and aggression. Care to see what the ads were? (Note: not for the easily offended)

See it here: Spamusement

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