Chitika: When Context Fails, Show Nude Women
06.07.2006
Chitika, the contextual shopping / reviews widget that publishers can post to their sites to provide their readers a search tool for related content, may be a bit racier than its syndication partners expected. From JenSense:
“images included in the ad units happen to be nearly-naked women gracing the covers of Hustler and Genesis magazines. And there is absolutely no supporting text on the page that would influence these types of ads. It is strictly ‘magazines subscriptions’ as the targeted keyword phrase that is triggering these adult ads.”
I find it bizarre that this news keeps getting written about when it happened a week ago and Chitika rectified it within 24 hours and responded in the comments of the post you linked to.
How about digging a little deeper and reporting what is actually happening.
Darren–Thanks for keeping me honest! I clicked around Chitika’s site & blog, but couldn’t find the response. Send it my way & I’ll post it.
Only place I read about this is your blog. Just cause its old, doesn’t mean it aint worthy. The comment from Darren gives the rest of the story, which is appreciated as well - but this is useful data.