[jojopotato]

The text ad is the only one served on that page by Google, if you go and look at the actual page the rest are served by AdBlade or Tribal Fusion. I feel like it's pretty misleading to complain about those ads as if they all came from the same company.

[raganwald]

The article is quite clear on the fact that the other ads need not be coming from Google.

[jojopotato]

It wasn't the impression I got from reading it, the text leading into the slideshow is:

>Between them, physorg.com and Google value money, and that’s it. > > There’s more on the same page, of course:

Which I felt kind of set the tone that they were Google related.

FWIW, I think that the aging secret, penny stock and money ads are scammy as hell and I think the internet would be better off without the bottom feeding ads that take advantage of people's ignorance or insecurities.

The Google+ ad, while poorly targeted to the content of the page, might actually be targeted towards you (I'm not sure that's possible though). In my case I get text ads for elbow tendonitis, probably because I've done searches for "wrist pain" and I've ended up on medical related websites recently. That and the hints they pass to adsense are:

google_hints = "animals elbow muscles";

The combination of those came up with that ad.