Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by b112 974 days ago
Google search is cratering from what I see, and that probably means context for their ads, too.

After all, this is all related.

Lately, I've been messing with wifi and hostapd. I get massive maps images, and pictures of hotels in the first 1/2 of my respones. I presume "hostapd" is a close mistype to "hotel", and people are searching for high speed wifi, so they may be searching for 80211ac or some such. Or likely google just sees "wifi thing -> wifi", and now I'm apparently searching for "hotel wifi".

Great. I can't get anything meaningful, unless I add -hotel.

They've gone so overboard with loose context matches, that I can't imagine their ad placement has much value.

1 comments

I don't think it's an ad. It looks more like Livenowfox.com's content management platform using post tags to insert 'related videos'.