How Google sees this blog

I don't expect this blog to be a big money maker, but I signed up for Google Ads to help defray costs. Google Ads runs the ads that you see in the sidebar and underneath the posts. They scan the content of the posts and based on the results they display ads that they feel will abe attractive to the typical visitor to the blog.

So what kind of person does Google expect to visit this blog? Well the first ads that they displayed were in Hebrew for large flat screen TVs. I wonder how many olim vatikim can afford that; I suspect that most of us are still using the 20" Sony that we put in our lifts 20 years ago. Maybe that's not entirely accurate - in addition to my 20" Sony, I've also got a 20" JVC that was bought in Duty Free when the $200 TV was all the rage ...

Last I checked, the sidebar ad was alternating between two different Hebrew ads: the first for a movie that I haven't heard about yet, and the second for Orange (incidentally the only major cellular provider that I haven't used yet). The bottom ads were all in English, but for Israel focused content.

So basically, Google has us spec'ed as thinking about the world in general in Hebrew, while thinking about Israel in English. I'm not sure that I agree, but I do think that it's an interesting theory.