Gripe about the articles

[FalcomPSX]

Your articles are usually quite well written, but lately i've noticed that random words link to advertisments. This is very stupid, if the word in the article is linked it is expected to give some additional information, or link to another article, not just some stupid advertisment that you randomly decided to put in. It's quite gay.

 

[Jason Clark]

It's advertisements, thanks for the feedback.

 

[FalcomPSX]

Sorry i posted in the wrong spot...BTW, i dont want to come off as an @$$, but ads in the middle of the article really bug me when they are integrated like that, banners i can stand, pop-up's i can close and/or block, but that's just wrong. I really enjoy most of your articles too, and though this won't stop me from reading them, it's just a thought i had.

 

[XMan]

Originally posted by: Zuni
It's advertisements, thanks for the feedback.

I hardly go to the main page anymore. It's just too "busy". The old look was much better. But I guess in these times you guys have to make ad revenue any way you can.

 

[Lord Evermore]

The linked word ads can be blocked. I wouldn't mind if they were consistent and actually made sense. I just did a quick random check, and the words "Communications" and "access" link to signing up for BT services. British Telecom, on a site in America, visited largely by Americans, in articles discussing Communications Streaming Architecture and the PCI Express architecture.

I can't believe those are worth having on the site. Who's clicking those links? All they do is make the text look messy because now we have orange links (at least they're not underlined and bold or whatever it was at first as I recall), and they don't help the reader in any way, not even offering something they might be interested in. They're just completely random dictionary links.

At least there aren't too many of them. Of course, that makes them even less lucrative, if we only see one per article.

 

[ProviaFan]

Hmm, I can't seem to "reproduce" this in IE6 or Mozilla 1.3 on Windows XP Pro SP1. Is there somewhere specifically that I'm supposed to be looking? 😱

<-- not blocking Javascript or using the Prox... yet 😉

 

[Aves]

jliechty check out this article. The word "motherboard" will be black at first and then turn orange.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Originally posted by: aves2k
jliechty check out this article. The word "motherboard" will be black at first and then turn orange.

I see nothing.

 

[ProviaFan]

Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey

Originally posted by: aves2k
jliechty check out this article. The word "motherboard" will be black at first and then turn orange.

I see nothing.

You won't if you use Mozilla. I just checked it out in IE6 with aves2k's link, and I have to admit, it is ugly and annoying. Fortunately, I prefer Mozilla. 🙂

 

[Haden]

Konqueror shows nothing too, it must be IE spefic, not that I'm complaining 🙂

 

[KristopherKubicki]

Yep it doesnt show up in netscape either.

 

[beatle]

So are ads designated in orange and "real" links remain the usual color?

 

[PowerMacG5]

I was going to create a post about this too. I understand you guys need to make money, but enough is enough. Originally you stated this bar on the left was temporary, this was what, 3 months ago? Now I have these useless orange links in the articles that don't help me in any way. Come on, I love anandtech, but you don't need to turn into an ad agency.

 

[Lord Evermore]

The ads on the left aren't quite two months old yet. 🙂

The orange links were actually happening back then as well, I guess they were removed for a time.

 

[astroview]

Jeez guys, calm down... do you want Anandtech to go out of business?

 

[Jason Clark]

The orange links will probably go the way of the do-do, we hear you.