Google Censorship

On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 10:04:41 +0900, Jeremy wrote:

Please register my complaint over google's blatant censorship of pages
on which to include its ads. Of course the ads that used to appear on
my site (ads for Kerry, ads for checking the current status of the
election, and other political ads) fit perfectly with my site and
would provide a very valuable experience for both your advertisers and
my users. The presidential election is exactly what my users are
interested in, and of course POLITICAL WEBSITES will contain
controversial topics! Where the hell are your political ads going if
they cannot go on sites that may contain "sensetive" content?

Jeremy
--see all prior correspondence below--

From: Jeremy
Subject: Technical Questions
Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2004 10:05:57 -0700

Hello. I added adsense to my website a few weeks ago, and it was working
great. There were many ads and they were perfectly targeted to my site.
Then I changed it to allow image ads about a week ago. All of a sudden
there were only public service ads, and despite changing my code back to
text only, the public service ads are persisiting. How can I get the ads
back? Please help!

Thanks,
Jeremy

On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 14:59:38 -0700, Google AdSense
wrote:
> Hello Jeremy,
>
> Thank you for your email and welcome to AdSense. I have examined your
site
> and researched this issue. We are constantly revising our content
> targeting algorithms in order to deliver the most relevant ads to web
> pages. While this system works very well, there are a small number of
> pages where poorly targeted or non-paying ads will show up. Regretfully,
> the page you sent us appears to fit into this group. Thank you for
> bringing this to our attention; your feedback will help us improve our
> content targeting servers to prevent this issue.
>
> Please feel free to reply to this email if you have additional questions
> or concerns.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Chris
> The Google Team

From: Jeremy
Subject: Re: [#15280575] Technical Questions
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 11:29:21 +0900

Thanks for your answer. However, there is something not right going
on. The page does work with targeted ads, as they were perfectly
targeted just over a week ago. Also, several similar websites have
perfectly targeted google ads, including image ads. I don't
understand how mine could work perfectly for a week and then stop.
Did all of those advertisers pull out?

On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 16:28:26 -0700, Google AdSense
adsense-support@google.com> wrote:
Hello Jeremy,

Thank you for your reply. Please note that we currently do not run paid
Google ads on web pages that are determined to contain potentially
sensitive content by our automatic contextual advertising system.

While reviewing your blog, I noticed that you have an entry that discusses
abortion issues. Many of the ads that would appear on your site would not
be relevant to your blog's content. Therefore, the ads would not provide a
valuable experience for your site's users or our advertisers.

Because our system automatically classifies web pages based on the type of
content, the ads appearing on the page you mentioned are public service ads,
for which you do not receive earnings. Thank you for your understanding.

Please feel free to reply to this email if you have additional questions
or concerns.

Sincerely,

Chris
The Google Team