Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 09:09:22 +0800 (CST) From: grog@lemis.de To: ken@housing1.stucen.gatech.edu (Kenneth Merry) Cc: jehamby@lightside.com, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, marcs@znep.com, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD advert Message-ID: <199702280109.JAA00261@papillon.lemis.de> 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
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