There was nothing wrong with the old logo, but I was bored with it. The new layout is designed so the ads can fit on the right-hand margin. (If your browser is too narrow they will float down to the bottom of the page and you won't see them. Lucky you.) I've added the ads here, on the EGBOK main page and on the sudoscript page. I don't expect to make any money, but I think Google is cool, and I'm interested in what they serve up. On the EGBOK and sudoscript pages, they currently show ads for Linux consultants. This a small awkwardness, because I am a Linux consultant, and I'm looking for work. I could block those particular ads if I wanted to. But it's more interesting following the links to see what the competition is up to. Here on Anger Management, Google is serving political ads. Again, this is a little awkward because I don't agree with most of the slants those ads display. However I'm a tolerant sort. And besides, I get paid if people follow the links irrespective of whether I agree with them or not!
It should be clear from the forgoing that the interesting thing about the Google ads is, they are based on the content of the page they live on. Google does a special crawl of your site once you put them up. Almost instantly, the ads change from public service announcements to targeted advertising. That means that you, my putative blog reader, should be predisposed to click on one of the links at right. Go ahead, click on one. I'll wait ..
If you are interested in doing this on your own site, just click on the "ads by google" link. If they annoy you, just ignore them and read all the other good stuff here.8)
Update, 21 July:
Well, they served up an ad for Micheal Savage. I blocked that one. I guess I'm not as tolerant as I thought. 8)
Posted by hbo at July 19, 2003 09:40 PM