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There is another way! You can become a contributing member and you won't see advertisements anymore.infidel said:OK, I guess you're saying the ads are chosen programmatically. I get it. I'm sure you need the income to run the site, but it'd be nice if there was some other way...
Alas, it's all wishful thinking, unless you can program a web crawler to distinguish between a valid and a crackpot science site. It has been suggested that this can be done by counting the number of times the page changes font color and/or size from paragraph to paragraph...When I said I wish there was a better way, I meant a better way to get ad income while filtering out the crapola
Well the adsense program doesn't select sites based on the complete google index. The site's are matched from within the adwords advertising database. So these crackpots are actively advertising. I don't think it's a huge problem because not many crackpots are actively using adwords to advertise. As long as you guys keep reporting a bad ad I can immediately ban it.anti_crank said:Alas, it's all wishful thinking, unless you can program a web crawler to distinguish between a valid and a crackpot science site. It has been suggested that this can be done by counting the number of times the page changes font color and/or size from paragraph to paragraph...
Fine by me; where do I send the list? (I do not have it on me though since I am currently away on a visit, but I will have it next week.)Greg Bernhardt said:Well the adsense program doesn't select sites based on the complete google index. The site's are matched from within the adwords advertising database. So these crackpots are actively advertising. I don't think it's a huge problem because not many crackpots are actively using adwords to advertise. As long as you guys keep reporting a bad ad I can immediately ban it.
You can PM me, thanks!anti_crank said:Fine by me; where do I send the list? (I do not have it on me though since I am currently away on a visit, but I will have it next week.)
Also, I wonder if Google adsense has any provisions that prohibits false advertising.