[bkcunningham1]

So you sell empty ad space to Google on your website with an monetary agreement based on "hits" to the ad space by viewers.

In turn, Google places advertisement in that space pertinent to the individual viewers' location. So I may see an ad in the top right corner of my computer screen when I'm on a website from an advertiser in Raleigh, NC, and Pturner might see an ad of the exact size and placement from an advertiser in Atlanta.

Amazing. Is there ever a real life person involved in this process? Or do servers and built-in programs compile, interpret and disseminate the information for the ads and placement of the ads to various locations?


Here's a sidebar to this discussion. I was a reporter covering a county airport authority meeting years ago. One of the authority members, who was a pilot, was always on top of cutting edge technology and sometimes he was laughed at behind his back for his outlandish schemes.

During a break in an airport authority meeting one night, we had a discussion about his new capital venture. It involved investing in Motorola and some ridiculous gibberish about cell phone towers and technology that would make bag phones obsolete. I remember thinking to myself, poor Dave, he's gonna go broke one of these days with his outrageous investments.