{"id":1113,"date":"2007-02-01T20:52:19","date_gmt":"2007-02-02T01:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2007\/02\/01\/sponsored-links\/"},"modified":"2007-02-01T20:52:19","modified_gmt":"2007-02-02T01:52:19","slug":"sponsored-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/01\/sponsored-links\/","title":{"rendered":"Sponsored Links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the fun aspects of using <a href=\"http:\/\/mail.google.com\/\">Gmail<\/a> is the little ads for sponsored links that appear next to every message.  I can&#8217;t imagine ever clicking on one of them, but it&#8217;s amusing to see what the Google mind thinks is related to the message content.  For the most recent daily mailing from <a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/form\/gr-qc\">gr-qc@arxiv.org<\/a>, here were the sponsored links that came along with it:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefirstpost.co.uk\/index.php?menuID=1&amp;subID=692&amp;WT.srch=1\">Fields Medal declined<\/a><br \/>\nGrigori Perelman has declined the 2006 Fields Medal for mathematics<br \/>\n<font color=\"green\">www.thefirstpost.co.uk<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fieldcenter.org\/\">the field center<\/a><br \/>\nhow consciousness creates reality; an extraordinary eight-week course.<br \/>\n<font color=\"green\">www.fieldcenter.org<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newphysicsandthemind.net\/\">The Theory of Everything<\/a><br \/>\nString theory can&#8217;t be all there is Read all about the alternatives<br \/>\n<font color=\"green\">NewPhysicsAndTheMind.net<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.microoffice.us\/\">field offices ny<\/a><br \/>\nPerfect sales office space in NYC. $495+, full service. Start now!<br \/>\n<font color=\"green\">www.microoffice.us<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.relativitychallenge.com\/index.htm\">Relativity Challenge<\/a><br \/>\nDid Einstein make a math mistake? You be the judge!<br \/>\n<font color=\"green\">www.relativitychallenge.com<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jobs.phds.org\/\">Wanted: Scientists<\/a><br \/>\nJobs for PhDs in biology, chemistry physics, math, and engineering<br \/>\n<font color=\"green\">jobs.phds.org<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filters-now.com\/products\/ucl.html#products\">Humidifier Filters<\/a><br \/>\nAll sizes all the time 24 hour shipping<br \/>\n<font color=\"green\">www.filters-now.com<\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So the scorecard is:  two relevant links, three crackpot sites, one hilariously inappropriate understanding of the word &#8220;field,&#8221; and one perplexing sales pitch for humidifiers.  But I kind of like the idea of attacking string theory via Google ads.    I might just start advertising my own papers this way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the fun aspects of using Gmail is the little ads for sponsored links that appear next to every message. I can&#8217;t imagine ever clicking on one of them, but it&#8217;s amusing to see what the Google mind thinks is related to the message content. For the most recent daily mailing from gr-qc@arxiv.org, here [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-miscellany"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}