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I noticed something this morning that I hadn’t seen before. On my blog ITsVISTA I use Google’s AdSense. In the sidebar I use a Link Unit, which displays four links to keywords related to the page they are on. It normally looks something like this:
At least that’s what it’s supposed to show. On one of my pages today I saw the following:
Is that an Ad Search Engine? I can now search for ads on any topic I choose? I only saw it that one time, and after many other pageviews and reloads can’t get it to reappear, so perhaps they are just testing it in a very limited trial. I have to wonder though, who would actually search for ads? This would be even less useful for me than the public service ads that periodically appear (at least those serve a public service).
Has anyone else seen this? Has it been around for a while and I just haven’t noticed? What is the purpose? Do they really believe people are interested in searching for ads? So many questions…
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This is part of my series on How to Install Windows Applications Silently.
SketchUp, now owned by Google, is a great 3D modeling program that makes it very easy to throw your 3-dimensional ideas into a model. If you need to install it on many machines, it will save you time to automate the process, so you don’t have to click through the installer each time. Thankfully, the Google SketchUp 6 installer isn’t to difficult (once you figure it out). Their are multiple ways to do this, but this is the one that I’m currently using so I know it works. Keep in mind that my main goal is to simplify the process so I don’t have to click so much, and automate so I don’t miss any steps. Whether or not this works with a login script or SMS or other methods of install aren’t within the scope of this document. Read more…
