Comments on: Geography-specific online ads is a dumb, dumb idea!

By: Muhammad Qasim Pasta

Muhammad Qasim Pasta — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 18:39:11 +0000

I have been working on a similar model and looking for investors .. any advice?

By: Imran

Imran — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:10:27 +0000

@Obi,

They certainly do but what Osama meant was that geography-specific ads should also cater for the ‘context’.

I guess the context should be mentioned by the publishers or the advertisers. Currently google adwords does not let publishers or advertisers control the context where ads can be displayed. But this may not be as simple as it sounds as it would mean that it should know what site is displaying it which I assume could be quite tough (how does urchin ad snippet determine context of the page? should the page specify some tags in it’s “meta” field or what? should publisher specify what ad it wants to display? etc etc.)

So is there an entrepreneur out there that can build a wrapper on top of google adwords and make em context sensitive.

By: Obi Wan Kenobi

Obi Wan Kenobi — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 17:13:02 +0000

And you think the researchers at Redmond/Mountain View/Sunnyvale labs do not have enough data to make decisions regarding this?

By: Nasir

Nasir — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 09:41:41 +0000

At times it induced impulse buying behaviour. It about marketing and i dont see a problem with this. Its just you are not interested in online-dating, but many people got aware of category this this.

By: Osama A.

Osama A. — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 23:23:56 +0000

Yea, which is all the more reason to let a good system run.

I dont have a problem that Mobilink can solve – I have a problem that some service provider out there can solve, but I havent heard of him.

If my problems could be solved by local guys I wouldve found them already.

Let us just discover people abroad and connect with them so that we can continue to hope that the internet was meant for flattening the world.

By: mansoor

mansoor — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 23:20:11 +0000

bombed back to the stone ages lolzz!

at first, even i was worried about this fact, especially when i kept see-ing mobilink and telenor ads wherever i went online.

however, at this point in time, i doubt there is a sufficient market of online advertisers to start ‘contextualizing’ these ads for our country. When you have a million pageviews a month from our country and only a couple of advertisers, they kind of get monopoly dont u think.

(somehow, i think this is how google got 2 sell ad space to mobilink in the first place :p lol)

By: Osama A.

Osama A. — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 22:37:10 +0000

On the other hand, if I were looking at, say, a Google Local versino of PK, it wouldnt hurt to also see local ads…. but again if they’re contextually revelant for god’s sake.

I have very little attention to give anyway

By: Osama A.

Osama A. — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 22:36:11 +0000

To complete this rant, contextual ads would be much much much more useful for “global-focused” websites.

As a techcrunch reader, I WOULD probably be interested in TheBigNetwork or VC or Angel Investors; development platforms; consulting support services or more.