slatestarscratchpad:

My blog now has Google ads!

The supposedly targeted ad is for Caesar’s Palace.

None of my recent blog posts have mentioned Caesar, palaces, Rome, Las Vegas, or gambling.

But the blog post I was working on earlier today, which has not yet been posted and is still on my computer and which no one except me has seen, mentions Caesar’s Palace by name in the context of a long discussion of something that happened to me in Las Vegas.

Google is getting way too good at what they do.

Eesh.

I’ve suddenly gotten ads for Prilosec the day after I put Pepcid down for “current medications” on the browser-based new patient form in my optometrist’s office, yesterday I got an ad I’m pretty sure was based on something I bought with a credit card in a meatspace store an hour earlier, at least I can visualize the mechanism for those.

Did you maybe copy the Caesar’s Palace text to clipboard while you had a browser open? That’s the only thing I can think of.