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by apexalpha 2272 days ago
These kind of 'keyword' based ads can backfire quick. Every forum where people seek support for miscariages will have all the keywords expected for sites visited by expecting or new parents. There are thousands of quite opposite cases where humans would judge the subjects very different than a bot counting keywords.

It's really hard to get this right.

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> There are thousands of quite opposite cases where humans would judge the subjects very different than a bot counting keywords.

It doesn't stop people from publishing results based on cutting-edge automated sentiment analysis, though. It's amazing what people will believe if you just lie loudly enough.