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Suggestive Ads on School District Story Page


ppt
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Joined: Mar 2008
Posts: 2

Someone needs to check the COCO Times ad placement software as it's either not working, poorly designed or no "body" took the time to test it before it was installed.

See: http://www.contracostatimes.com/search/ci_8487737?IADID=Search-www.contracostatimes.com-www.contracostatimes.com

The ad there right now- "Feel Beautiful and Sexy! - This Chinese secret will shock you" is pretty suggestive and to my mind has no business being on a page with a story about a school district! The type of web application that controls ad placement should allow the web administrator the ability to electronically indicate which ads run (or don't run) under which (keyword) story lines.

Attached is a screen shot in case the "included properties" roll to a new ad before someone gets a chance to look at it.

Talk about poor community relations! ppt

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asoglin
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Joined: Jul 2005
Posts: 19

We've submited a request to the ad server to have this ad removed.

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Ari Soglin

Assistant managing editor, Online content

Bay Area News Group - East Bay

ppt
ppt's picture

Joined: Mar 2008
Posts: 2

Thanks, but you might want to send follow-up to your request ... It's still there at 3:48pm PDT 03/18/08- ppt

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