How come everytime I ask a question about a subject an advertisement pops up on the right of the screen related to the question I asked?
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I had not noticed but I would not be too surprised that is how they pay the bills for this web site. I'll pay more attention next time I write a question. Thanks for the tip.
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the ads have keywords which answerbag looks for in your question and finds the related ad to help you
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Firefox is the right answer, with adblocking facilities.
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The specific words in your question prompts the 'advertisers' to give you more options for answers to your questions.
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Thas' it advertising money goes where potentual customers are the most vunroble.
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I use a Mozilla browser similar to Firefox (SeaMonkey) that lets me add a script-blocking plugin called "NoScript." It blocks all javascript items except those you permit. Very nice. I see no ads on most websites, including this one. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/722 There are many adblocking utilities out there, but NoScript is my favorite. The downside is that it sometimes takes a moment to see what you're looking for on a new website, while you figure out which scripts you need to enable. (You get a pop-up menu and you can select some scripts and reject others.) It's not for beginners, but for intermediate users and up you won't have any trouble.
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It is the Google Adwords program. The Answerbag server tells Google what it is going to say, and Google picks ads using keywords from the Answerbag text. You can see the "Ads by Google" at the top of the column of ads.
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