About Google Ads. Can we change them?
in a way, the keyword “filipina” is being cybertyped and exploited online. since 1995, I’ve tried searching “filipina” typed into search fields of yahoo, google and other search engines. many times. same results. Now you try it. Consider this research. Type “filipina” in the google search box on the left column. The search results are gonna look alot like the content of these google ads on the right>>
Don’t those search engines and these google ads give you cause to do think about why this might be happening? this has been going on since content began to come up on the web (see Filipina Cyberpresence 1995-2003).
Years ago, I contacted google about removing porn photos in their Images search results for “filipina”. They managed to remove those. Then later, when I first began to observe that google ads gave a skewed representation of filipinas, I contacted google about that too. While I was at it, I also asked them, again, about their search engine results for “filipina”. They responded via email with an impersonal answer, again, that they could not change the search and ad programming, that is, it was based on the way the keyword of “filipina” is being used online. And how the keyword is chosen by certain google advertisers in certain businesses.
The google ad image here is a capture from the homepage. These ads are a result of those who buy adspace and want to appear in sites with “filipina” content. Obviously, those who can afford to buy them are those who are making money in one form or another. As you can see from these ads, they are mostly those who provide website services that objectify the term and image of “Filipina” and profit from cyber-selling them in various ways—mostly as correspondence companions, fleshy fantasies and potential domesticated wives. (I have been trying to filter the porn sites out of these google ads).
We are all witness right now, as to how, on an impersonal level, google ads create a skewed internet illusion and cybermyth of “filipinas for sale”.
The popular Filipina youtube celebrity, HappySlip, has herself had problems with these google ads. See story here>>
This is very personal for many of us Filipinos and Filipinas who live our whole lives outside such a filipina cybermyth.
In order to change how “filipina” appears in google ads more filipina publishers need to purchase ads. I dream of setting up a fund to just buy google ads with keywords for filipina.
But many of you cyberpinays and pinoys might be able to change how filipina appears in search engine results. You can do so by adding certain metatags, keywords and links in your blog, webpage or website. CLICK HERE to find out more >>