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Re:What Happens Next Will Amaze You by j2kun on Wednesday September 23, 2015 @01:41PM (#10266560)
Does this become less true the more niche the website is? People who read my math blog should be served ads for technical things (math books, online courses, etc), regardless of recent search history.

In reality, I have a math blog with ads for Cap'n Crunch cereal and strange new yogurts which seem very distracting and poorly-targeted when compared to, say, ads for O'Reilly math/CS books or a MOOC on probability and statistics.

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Re:What Happens Next Will Amaze You by nemothekid on Wednesday September 23, 2015 @03:27PM (#10267485)
>I have a math blog with ads for Cap'n Crunch cereal and strange new yogurts

Seems like to me the algorithm gods decided that your site was better suited to advertise to parents of toddlers.

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