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Sep. 27th, 2018 02:05 pmI sat on the ref desk for an hour while the subject librarians were in a meeting and had six whole encounters.
that's enough human contact for today.
that's enough human contact for today.
Sep. 27th, 2018
Amazon Ads on Various Generators
Sep. 27th, 2018 02:34 pmSo I set Amazon ads running on the generators. They haven't actually resulted in any income--I've had a grand total of one click-through and zero sales in the weeks since I installed them--but they are providing me a bit of entertainment.
I set them to be context-dependent, so they look at the stuff on the page they're installed and suggest things appropriate to that page. If they can't figure out anything appropriate to that page, they default to either art supplies (on the art-related generators) or how-to-write books on the writing-related generators.
What are they showing me?
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You may get different results: I think the ads also take into account any Amazon cookies you have in your browser to serve you thing they think you might like. They were all serving me books on Google Docs a while back, and I never figured out why.
I set them to be context-dependent, so they look at the stuff on the page they're installed and suggest things appropriate to that page. If they can't figure out anything appropriate to that page, they default to either art supplies (on the art-related generators) or how-to-write books on the writing-related generators.
What are they showing me?
( Read more... )You may get different results: I think the ads also take into account any Amazon cookies you have in your browser to serve you thing they think you might like. They were all serving me books on Google Docs a while back, and I never figured out why.
