Hi, I've some experience with google advertising, and my answer is to that questions no!
1. the reason why it comes up for "sage math" but not for "math" alone is, simply because a search for "math" is too unspecific and all others in the pool bidding for this word are selected. indeed, with a very low probability you will see the same ad here, too. 2. I tried to advertise for sage using the keyword "sage" - that's not possible, because "sage" is trademark of that other finance software "sage". 3. I can only think of the possibility, that they use the keyword "sagemath". But I think it's much more likely that they throw a lot of money on the math keyword and that's it. 4. Also, don't forget, it's not only about keywords and money. There is also an equally important measurement by google for the quality of an ad. That is something based on the text inside the ad and a language analysis of it and that is compared to the language analysis of all the texts in the websites. This includes, i think, clustering of text into topics based on the used words and more. The optimization of google works that way, that it tries to punish bad quality ads by charging them with more money (in the bidding) and better quality ads with good and specific texts are cheaper. If someone is interested, I can tell you more about that... The goal is to have an economic model where those players who are "good" [for google and the users] live longer. Harald On Apr 7, 3:30 am, dmharvey <dmhar...@cims.nyu.edu> wrote: > When I google for "sage math", I get mathematica ads on the right. Is > that something they would have done on purpose? > > david --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
