Sex Sells Engines?

03/12/2005 07:16:47 PM

So, after blogging yesterday about pornography and using loaded words like "sex" and "skin flicks", I couldn't wait to what kinds of ads Google AdSense would serve up on my site.  I knew there'd be nothing hardcore - this is Google - but I wasn't prepared for what I saw.

Three out of the five ads are for engines or engine rebuilding.  After much puzzling, I have two theories, probably both wrong:

I'd be interested to hear comments from the many of you who understand the AdSense keyword algorithm better I do.