# Google Adds **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [February 18, 2006, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-adds/345125 "2006-02-18T22:02:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Youbetcha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/b19c9b/32.png) [@Youbetcha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Youbetcha)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2006, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-adds/345125/21 "2006-02-20T19:20:34Z")
Apple Apple Apple Apple Apple Apple Apple Apple Apple Apple Apple Apple Apple Apple Apple Apple Just checking… ---
**Author:** ![Feydeau](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df788c/32.png) [@Feydeau](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Feydeau)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2006, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-adds/345125/22 "2006-02-20T20:50:16Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Hm, do all of you folks _normally_ get Montana ads? I’m thinking that I may, perhaps, have skewed the results with my previous post. Of course, now all the folks saying “I’m getting Montana ads too” are just reînforcing it. Poor confused Google, probably thinks we’re planning a hunting or skiing trip in this thread, now. > > Maybe we can get it out of my backyard, if we start talking about **fetus** ’ home of San Diego, or **MannyL** ’s New Jersey. > > And **fetus** , I wouldn’t expect it to pick up “baseball” from your location. Yes, it’s a baseball reference, but the only real indicator of that is “NL”, which could of course stand for many other things. The first thing I think of when I see “NL” is the Netherlands. Maybe we’ll get some European travel ads now. ---
**Author:** ![Youbetcha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/b19c9b/32.png) [@Youbetcha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Youbetcha)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2006, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-adds/345125/23 "2006-02-20T20:59:09Z")
Nope, still Bozeman’s and Missoula Montana for me… ---
**Author:** ![Feydeau](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df788c/32.png) [@Feydeau](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Feydeau)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2006, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-adds/345125/24 "2006-02-20T21:37:25Z")
There’s also the time factor – I’m unsure how often Google’s adbot searches existing content. This thread has only been ‘live’ for 48 hours. ---
**Author:** ![xbuckeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9e8a1a/32.png) [@xbuckeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xbuckeye)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2006, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-adds/345125/25 "2006-02-26T03:13:48Z")
> [@Youbetcha](#): > > Apple Apple Apple Apple Apple Apple Apple Apple Apple Apple Apple Apple Apple Apple Apple Apple > > Just checking… Banana strawberry kumquat kiwi orange mango pinapple grape blueberry grapefruit tomato apricot peach pear plum nectarine blackberry raspberry clementine tangelo gooseberry ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2006, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-adds/345125/26 "2006-02-26T04:01:26Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > And fetus, I wouldn’t expect it to pick up “baseball” from your location. Yes, it’s a baseball reference, but the only real indicator of that is “NL”, which could of course stand for many other things. How many different things does “NL West” mean to you? I suspect it means just about the same number of things to Google. “NL West”, particularly with “won” in the same sentence, has to be Western US Major League Baseball if you ask me. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2006, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-adds/345125/27 "2006-02-26T04:54:55Z")
Honestly? The first thing it suggests to me is the US West realm of Blizzard’s [Battle.net](http://Battle.net) servers, non-ladder. But if we’re going to talk about which words are near each other, “where the west was won” is not an uncommon phrase, having nothing whatsoever to do with baseball. Your location is just that plus a single two-letter word, and no search index can afford to put too much weight on two-letter words. Now, if you were to stick “NL West” together with a few other things suggestive of baseball, such as “RBI”, or “game”, or “bat”, then Google probably would infer baseball from that. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2006, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-adds/345125/28 "2006-02-26T07:24:24Z")
Right now I’m in Flint, MI, and I’m getting Bozeman ads. As far as Google ads go-- I set up an account with Google AdSense to promote a website, and the way it worked was: I could submit a number of keywords which, when someone searched for (or mentioned, as is the case here), it would bring up my ad. I could also localize certain keywords. For instance, for a Detroit-based bar website, I could have “Detroit” as a universal keyword for my ad (my ad would appear whenever someone searched for “Detroit”), and then have I would have “bar” be a local (only for Detroit-based IP addresses) keyword. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-adds/345125.md?page=1)