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Subject: Re: FreeBSD advert
In-Reply-To: <199702261738.MAA10689@housing1.stucen.gatech.edu> from Kenneth Merry at "Feb 26, 97 12:38:06 pm"
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Kenneth Merry writes:
> Jake Hamby wrote...
>> Marc Slemko writes:
>
>> > To follow up to what I said before, even better... the FreeBSD ad popped
>> > up when I did a search on Linux.  <g>
>>
>> That's not a coincidence!  Yahoo's search engine appears to pop up ads
>> semi-intelligently.  If you search for Linux or FreeBSD, you'll get .. a FreeBSD
>> ad!  If you search for sex, you get "Create Your Own Custom Hardcore Porn
>> Channel" or "The Net's Only XXX Search Engine" (I'm not kidding! :).  Look up
>> "religion", and you get "Bible News", which you'll need after visiting either of
>> the previous sites, I'm sure.  ;)  Look up "Java", you get a site offering Java
>> training.  And so forth...
>
> (deleted)
>
> 	So they do targeted advertising based on hostname.  Pretty
> interesting.

So why do they show FreeBSD to Linux users?  Somebody at Yahoo loves
us?

Greg