Googly Update
Well, it appears that the Google powers that be have decided to send me ads, at least for now. Who knows, maybe 5 minutes from now they’ll go away, but for now I got ads. The ads were up and down all day yesterday so who the heck knows.
I may just decide to turn the ads off anyway because it may be inhibiting "certain people" for me to have to have my site censored to this extent. Not that I’m pointing any fingers Andy.
So it looks like my little experiment is about over one way or the other. The response from Google was that they don’t like my domain name (which I can’t change without starting all over) and my Blog Title (which I did change). They also said that even "if" I make changes they requested I may still not get ads for several weeks because their bots do the filtering. Good thing I’m not a Gynecologist or a Proctologist, God knows what they’d say about THOSE words. Can you say "Rectalectomy.com" three times fast? How about "Analretentive.com"?
My response is that if Google or their advertisers are that offended by the word crap then I’m not sure I want their damned butt ugly ads cluttering up my pages anyway. Two or three cents a click out of every five hundred or so for the next year might buy me a burger and a coke, especially if I’m only gonna get them once in a while whenever their bot is out to lunch.
Score one more for the Corporation. They can buy somebody else a burger who is more willing to conform to their moral and literary values. I certainly don’t mind some censorship for the kiddies and adults out there, but this one is simply over the top.
D Brooks