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>or a brand that brings value to you I have, exactly once in my life, connected with an ad in this way. I remember it vividly, because even at the time, it st

>or a brand that brings value to you I have, exactly once in my life, connected with an ad in this way. I remember it vividly, because even at the time, it struck me as amazingly strange an ad would actually be anything other that pointless noise. I'd been house sitting at a friends place for a week, and so had been to all the takeout joints in the area several times. I didn't really want any of the options again, but was kinda hungry for lunch. At that moment a subway ad came on TV, and I remembered that there was a tiny subway tucked away off the main street, so I went there for lunch. That's it, that's my story of ads putting me in contact with a brand that brought value to me. It happened once, and only once, and it happened at Norwood, South Australia. I feel like I could have dug deep and lived without that brand connection.

ChairmanPao 9y ago
Jared!? They let you on the internet?
majewsky 9y ago
I picture you sitting in a rocking chair 50 years from now while telling this story. "Grandpa, can you tell us again of the time when you saw a useful ad?" - "Ah yes, those were the times. But first, some messages from our sponsors!"
libertine 9y ago
I wonder if you ever clicked on a Google Adwords ad, after you searched for something.
- Sir_Substance 9y ago
  No. Even in the cases where the adword result is at the top and the exact same result is right below it, I choose to click the non-ad version. That situation is, in fact, a classic example of why adwords results are not relevant, ever. Either the actual google search result is literally the same as the ad word result, or the google result is more on point. Never has there been a case where the ad word result has been what I wanted, but Google couldn't find it, and that's not surprising because Google is the one assembling both the search results and the ads, so if they can't find it in the search they also can't find an ad for it.

ChairmanPao 9y ago

Jared!? They let you on the internet?

majewsky 9y ago

I picture you sitting in a rocking chair 50 years from now while telling this story. "Grandpa, can you tell us again of the time when you saw a useful ad?" - "Ah yes, those were the times. But first, some messages from our sponsors!"

libertine 9y ago

I wonder if you ever clicked on a Google Adwords ad, after you searched for something.

Sir_Substance 9y ago
No. Even in the cases where the adword result is at the top and the exact same result is right below it, I choose to click the non-ad version. That situation is, in fact, a classic example of why adwords results are not relevant, ever. Either the actual google search result is literally the same as the ad word result, or the google result is more on point. Never has there been a case where the ad word result has been what I wanted, but Google couldn't find it, and that's not surprising because Google is the one assembling both the search results and the ads, so if they can't find it in the search they also can't find an ad for it.