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I don't feel qualified to say whether this is FUD or not, but it certainly imposed some fear on me. I don't know what a Gout is and now I'm afraid to search for

• joh6nn 16y ago
  From the American Heritage Dictionary: "Gout: (n) A disturbance of uric-acid metabolism occurring chiefly in males, characterized by painful inflammation of the joints, especially of the feet and hands, and arthritic attacks resulting from elevated levels of uric acid in the blood and the deposition of urate crystals around the joints. The condition can become chronic and result in deformity."
• tdfx 16y ago
  The gout example in the article strikes me as very odd, since the only site that should've received the referrer with the search terms was wikipedia. Therefore we've left to conclude that either Google is targeting ads in their AdSense network based on search terms (which is outside the scope of Gabriel's argument) or Wikipedia is passing search terms to ad networks that for some reason it doesn't display ads from. Equally likely is that this concerned user clicked on a different health-related site with an ad network that classified him according to that site's content or stated category -- there's simply no evidence that the aggregation of search terms happened. Note: I'm not saying the story couldn't be true, just pointing out that no technical evidence has been presented to rule out the other possibilities.