Is Google Homophobic? Part 2..
I did a bit of google searching, (though perhaps I should be boycotting Google altogether and use MSN Live? (Coz surprisingly enough, it’s quite a good engine) and then I sent Rajiv a reply email..
Hi Rajiv,
On the subject of “Family Safe”, as you mentioned, I just thought i’d try something.
I ran a search on: “googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js” boobs,
and retrieved 96 links that matched my search. (Just to find something that had google ads on it)One of the first matches, for instance:
www.arseburgers.co.uk/blog/archives/cat_boobs.html has google ads.Also, the following explicit straight porn pic sites are running google ads, and seem to have been doing so for quite a while.
http://sweetchinagirl.blogspot.com/
http://asiaspagirls.blogspot.com/
http://ashton-moore77.blogspot.com/
http://american-beauti.blogspot.com/
http://chinacutegirl.blogspot.com/I would like to know how these are more “Family Safe” than my sites.
I assume they’d be earning quite a bit off these ads, whereas my sites, which do not serve up porn, seem to be earning little or nothing for clicks, even when it’s not displaying PSA’s.
Thank you.
Expecting another bullshit excuse, I waited in anticipation.
Hello,
I understand that you’ve noticed other sites that are displaying Google ads. Because we respect the confidentiality of all publishers, we cannot disclose any additional details of our relationships with other sites.
[Ahem, other PORN sites Becky, not just other SITES.]
We appreciate your understanding.
For additional questions, I’d encourage you to visit the AdSense Help Center (http://www.google.com/adsense_help), our complete resource center for all AdSense topics. Alternatively, feel free to post your question on the forum just for AdSense publishers: the AdSense Help Group (http://groups.google.com/group/adsense-help).
Sincerely,
Becky
The Google AdSense Team
To me, this looks like they actually condone google ads on these porn sites, d’ya think?
Just to make sure, i’ve sent this one off:
Hi Becky,
I’m not asking you to disclose anything about other site, i’m just pointing out that Rajiv said:
…We currently do not run paid Google ads on web pages that are determined to contain potentially mature or adult content by our automatic contextual advertising system — only Google ads categorized as ‘Family Safe’ by the AdWords team are available through the AdSense program at this time. Because our system automatically classifies web pages based on the type of content…
So if you’re saying it’s ok for google to serve ads on the same pages/sites that actually show heterosexual naked porn pictures, don’t you think it’s a bit of double standards?
And how can those pages be ‘family safe’…
Thank you.
Ooh shit, damage control. Heh.
02.Apr.07 
Controversy, Web / Programming
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Well said! Bash those bastards!
Maybe it has more to do with the fact that the the Photoblogs webpage seems to link almost exclusively to Porn sites and has done for some time. It will, by association with those sites to which it is linked, be deemed to have Porn content by Google’s search algorithms. Google decides what a webpage is about by reference to the pages it links to as well it’s own content.
The page you refer to on my site, http://www.arseburgers.co.uk/blog/, has no links to pornographic websites, no “porn” (other than the occasional mention of the word “boobs”), and no pornographic images. It is also a very small part of a large website that is very un-pornographic. It is very unlikely, therefore, that Google views that page as being Porn.
It has, in the past, served no ads or only PSA ads on that and other pages. I have since edited the language used on to avoid this problem.
Hope that helps. Unfortunately, for the purposes of the above, your comparison isn’t valid.
Thanks for dropping by theaardvark, but actually, my comparison is valid.
I never said you had porn on your site, just links to questionable content – but that’s evidently ok (for certain people) by the big G.
Google was spouting off about only having ‘family friendly’ sites with adsense, and i’m sure your links to Lindsay Lohan’s flaming minge aren’t exactly recommended viewing for the kiddies. (Except maybe as a ‘do not turn out like this trashbag’ warning from mum)
Not to mention the actual domain does have connotations of its own too.
Cheers
The domain is a curse replacement my friend and I used to use years ago. The connotations are all your own
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My point is that the sub-domain with which you are having problems consists almost exclusively of links to porn sites. However, my site has very few links to dodgy sites. It’s simply a question of scale.