[Shotimes] BON and "turbonator"

[Bill Murray]

BON has a contract with Google to display automotive related ads most likely.  I doubt that Google supplied BON with a "play list"of all the ads that they will be showing.  That wouldn't be to profitable for the companies paying google to run their ads. The ads are most likely randomly generated as well, with Google using its own technology to show the ads.

Bill Murray
-----Original Message-----
From: Donald Mallinson <dmall@mwonline.net>
Date: 04/21/05 12:59 PM
To: shotimes@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Shotimes] BON and "turbonator"

Of course a site has choice over whether they show Google ads or not.  
And V8SHO.com has never shown any Google ads that I am aware of, yes if 
you use their search engine you probably come up with sites that pay for 
top placement, and scam stuff like this always does, but that has 
nothing to do with the ads on BON that I think they should not run.

BON can just use the basic Google search without all those ads, but BON 
is a commercial site that needs to make money, nothing wrong with that, 
just that it hurts their credibility when they allow obvious scams like 
this.

But to repeat, BON does NOT have to allow Google to place those ads.  
Maybe they have a contract for a certain amount of time, but they made a 
decision to allow the ads, and they can remove them.  Google, unless 
they have an ownership interest in BON, doesn't dictate to them or 
ANYONE what can be on a web site. 

Of course BON is not under my control, so they can do what they want, I 
am just personally a bit disappointed that they allow that ad on their 
site.  They DO have a choice if it runs or not.

Don Mallinson

Paul L Fisher wrote:

>Actually, I don't think they do. Google classifies what kind of site they
>are on and the advertiser pays to be put on those types of sites. There
>might be a way to specifically exclude a certain advertiser but I'm not sure
>about that. When you use the Google search on www.v8sho.com, Google puts
>their ads on the right as well. In tat case, I do not believe that v8sho.com
>gets any money but they get to use Google's search engine to search the
>site.
>
>
>Paul L Fisher
>
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net [mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net]
>On Behalf Of Donald Mallinson
>Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 10:04 AM
>To: shotimes@autox.team.net
>Subject: Re: [Shotimes] BON and "turbonator"
>
>Noah,
>
>I understand, but even if Google places the ads, BON allows them to do