[MLUG - DISCUSSION] Banner Add rotation.

["Christian M. Cepel" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

I've noticed a bizarre situation with banner adds.   Like you I never 
really pay attention to them anyways, but twice in as many days, I have 
been on a site and seen one out of the corner of my eye just after I 
clicked a button to go to another part of the site.  When I click back, 
I find out that it's a rotating system as it loads a new add into the 
space.   Now here's the thing.  One would assume that these are random, 
or perhaps a bit weighted to those who pay more, but eventually you 
should be able to come up with the add you're looking for assuming a 
finite selection of adds.  Yes I realize that even with a pseudo random, 
that this could take a long time, but still it would not account for the 
behavior I've seen on Snopes.com and Dictionary.com such that if I hit 
reload a couple of times, eventually I'll land on a Shutterfly and 
Classmates.com advertisement respectively and then no matter how many 
times I continue to reload, I'll never get a different add.

Do these things have some sort of cookie component?   I wonder if their 
algorithms are just so screwed up that after X iterrations it fails to 
deliver new content.

Thoughts?


I never have gotten back to the adds I was looking for.  I never thought 
I'd say that and actually care.

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