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10 Responses to "Try Something For Me"

1. | Reply Rob
   Posted 18 Jan 2006 at 4:36pm #
   

   I don't know about anyone else, but I don't see any ads anywhere on any page. I even turned off SafariBlock, quit Safari and reloaded. Still no ads.

2. | Reply Heinrich Beck
   Posted 18 Jan 2006 at 4:55pm #
   

   I typed in nslog/1234 and found a fishing entry.

   The Google ad took me here:

   http://search.ebay.com/trout-fish_W0QQfkrZ1

   The ad was small and out of the way.

3. | Reply Jared Barden
   Posted 18 Jan 2006 at 6:40pm #
   

   Just so you know, your recommendation that people click on the ads is technically against the AdSense Terms of Service. See Section 5. I'll click one anyway : ).

4. | Reply David
   Posted 18 Jan 2006 at 7:01pm #
   

   The ads on this entry discuss blogs. I see your ads all the time. I even click on them from time to time. I didn't click this time though, because it does violate the TOS of AdSense, and I am a paranoid AdSense user. Sorry. I'll get one for you when one interests me.

5. | Reply Erik
   Posted 18 Jan 2006 at 7:25pm #
   

   I went to a randomly-numbered entry and clicked an AdSense link that simply said "Blog", but took me to the Christian Singles Network.

   I think one thing I don't like about Google's AdSense is that if they go to the trouble to use a little JavaScript to prevent the browser's status bar from displaying the hyperlink you're hovering over, they may as well put in a tad more effort and make it display the link that you'll be eventually forwarded to. In other words, I know it doesn't make sense for the status bar to say http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/adclick?sa=l&ai=BR_I-DNzOQ7zWFblah blah blah blah, so I can understand why they hide it. But why not do the "good" (or "not evil") thing and have it display the real URI instead?

6. | Reply Jared Barden
   Posted 18 Jan 2006 at 10:14pm #
   

   When I hover over the ads on this page in Safari, it does show the link (bluevoda.com) in the status bar temporarily. Am I missing something in your comment?

7. | Reply Michael
   Posted 19 Jan 2006 at 9:24am #
   

   Woh! I swear my penis is psychic or something! I chose a seemingly random number, put it in and found the blog entry named "Britney Spears on Female Masturbation".

8. | Reply Erik
   Posted 19 Jan 2006 at 10:20am #
   

   Hovering over the link in Firefox on winblows doesn't yield the URL in the status bar, though that could be a side effect of some extension or other (doubtful).

9. | Reply Martin
   Posted 19 Jan 2006 at 10:45am #
   

   Congratulations. You're little experiment made double the amount that I've made in the past year. I figure if Google is still around in 15 years, I'll be able to collect a check from them 🙂

10. | Reply Bud Landry
    Posted 19 Jan 2006 at 12:57pm #
    

    I didn't click any ads. I am curious though, as to the distribution of random numbers people may have chosen; for example, my instinct was to pop in a date from history- so I'm wondering if the majority of your hits might have been numbers from 1-2006 or such.

    My random hit pulled up an NSLog I could have commented heavily upon, as a user of the product being discussed.