Posted on 11/04/2008 10:38:11 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Google has become embroiled in a row about gay marriage, after opponents of same-sex unions in California used the search engine's advertising network to post messages on popular websites against the owner's wishes.
A number of American websites, including the widely read TechCrunch and Create Digital Music blogs, featured adverts backing Proposition 8, which would change California’s constitution to define marriage as the union of a man and a woman.
The adverts appeared on the sites a day before the crucial vote - which Californians will take at the same time as the presidential ballot - and have caused uproar among site owners and readers alike.
Proposition 8 marks the first time voters have been asked to ban same-sex unions retroactively. If passed, it would overrule the state Supreme Court decision in May that said preventing gays from marrying was unlawful discrimination. Since that ruling more than 16,000 gay couples have wed in California.
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I don’t know what you are talking about. I did a search and guess what came up first thing...
http://www.protectmarriage.com/
Notice how the reporters say it was against their wishes. In order for it to be against their wishes, they would have had to state that they didn’t want the ads shown on their site. That is not how Ads by Google works. It places ads based on page content, in order to satisfy advertisers that the target market is being reached. The site owner is then compensated by Google. If Prop. 8 supporters targeted any content, and paid for it, then the people who displayed the ads have nothing to say about it. Google is embarrassed, but only for a little while.
Actually, they do. Google provides the abilty to block ads.
The leftists were just too stupid or lazy to do it.
"The Competitive Ad Filter enables you to block specific ads, such as competitors' ads, from appearing on your pages. Entering a more general URL will block a wider range of ads; entering a more specific URL will block a smaller range of ads."
I thought you could set the ads to exclude things like sex ads or other items?
Some friends of mine have a message board for their World of Warcraft guild on Proboards.com, a free message board site. Well, one of them who’s currently visiting in California got on a computer and saw one of those targeted Google ads about Prop 8 (a “free” Proboards account like theirs has an ad at the top of every page) and went BALLISTIC. I mean, you’d have thought he got an eyeful of kiddie pr0n on his computer.
Now they’re talking about ditching Proboards completely because of this “hurtful, shameful, anti-diversity” (their words) ad. Never mind that I’ve been wading through Obama ad drek for SIX MONTHS on hundreds of websites and never gave it a second thought. You don’t want an ad? Set up a paid Proboards account which ditches the ad, or get a browser addon like Noscript that blocks them.
}:-)4
Take every opportunity you can to damage google, with the ultimate goal of destroying it.
I HATE the word ‘row’ when you mean argument. I’m not a damned brit. I know this has nothing to do with the article, but the title really bugs.
And i dont like when the news reporter telling me about MY marines and soldiers in Iraq is speaking “british”.
A row is a line of things,,etc,,,
They were at every site with ads I visited last night. Didn't matter the topic or purpose of the site. It was maddening, like the old days of runaway pop-ups.
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