# Google ads have started picking up on our site's name to sell us products

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-ads-have-started-picking-up-on-our-sites-name-to-sell-us-products/330107>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [November 8, 2005, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-ads-have-started-picking-up-on-our-sites-name-to-sell-us-products/330107 "2005-11-08T21:06:55Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![andrewdt85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/71e660/32.png) [@andrewdt85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andrewdt85)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2005, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-ads-have-started-picking-up-on-our-sites-name-to-sell-us-products/330107/1 "2005-11-08T21:06:55Z")

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Sdmb  
Always low prices on Sandisk storage and data media products.  
[www.weselltape.com](http://www.weselltape.com)

:rolleyes: What’s next, scanning our usernames and selling us stuff based on that?

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**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2005, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-ads-have-started-picking-up-on-our-sites-name-to-sell-us-products/330107/2 "2005-11-08T22:11:42Z")

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I hope not! :eek:

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**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2005, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-ads-have-started-picking-up-on-our-sites-name-to-sell-us-products/330107/3 "2005-11-08T22:23:27Z")

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> [@Smeghead](#):
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> I hope not! :eek:

Now that was funny.

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**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2005, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-ads-have-started-picking-up-on-our-sites-name-to-sell-us-products/330107/4 "2005-11-08T23:16:27Z")

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the small, unobtrusive ones i can _grudgingly_ tolerate, but what’s with the BIG ANNOYING SINGLE AD occasionally seen at the bottom, these things were supposed to be “unobtrusive”