There’s a lot of talk recently on the evils of Google. Firstly there’s the restructure and rerestrcuture of the Adsense Referrals Program (which inspired me to do this), and the localisation of Google Mail - which you can see to the image to the left (the fact that the UK “Trash” is called a “Bin”. Of course, the second one isn’t exactly evil, so I’ll leave you to guess which one was blogged about extensively, and which I only noticed.
However, one, very, very good thing is that Google Adsense is that has become a tool against plagarism.
Last week, a paper which I won’t mention hear for fear of being crucified for being a neo nazi (it was the only thing in the Dentist office! I was trapped in Middle Wales!) had - shock horror - a fairly amusing article. In admist the rubbish of moral decay due to immigrants and how to cure cancer with a pritt stick, there was an article about Google Adsense, and how GCSE and A-Level students were getting their coursework cought out because of it. Why? Well, have a look below.
(Disclaimer: the image below wasn’t one found in the paper. I created it, but it was something similar.)
Yes. Our little darlings were copying websites - including the adverts. I can understand if you were copying and pasting it from your web browser to Word, but copying out by hand? How stupid can you be?
Of course, it does lead to a bright future for those who are using embedded ads in content. If people can copy text freehand from websites without realising it, they’re sure to click on ads, right?
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Rhys Wynne, the author of this blog, is a 20 something web designer from Colwyn Bay.
Oh that is too funny. I think there must be a genetic shift back towards monkey for some of these kids because that is about the only way to explain this level of stupid. Actually I reckon monkeys would do better.
I Just do not believe it! How can kids be so stupid?
At least when I used to plagurise, I did it properly! hehe
Damn, that is hilarious!
I despair of todays youth. I mean how fucking stupid? My sisters don’t even know where famous landmarks are like the Barrier Reef, Mount Fuji, Uluru etc.
We’re domed. We’ll be breeded out by chavs.
or doomed.
Reminds me of a comment on the BBC Messageboards about the McDonalds A-Level, and they complained about “DUMMING DOWN”
clever buggers.
and bin? wtf! Thats weird! my gmail thinks I’m in the US - that version gets new features first
I don’t think it’s so much a case of stupid as it is a case of lazy. They didn’t even bother to read the content. They probably thought the ads were part of the content!
No, that’s just stupid. Ads by Google. How can you not even read it as you’re writing it and realize that shouldn’t be there? This goes way beyond just cheating to just being outright stupid. This students should have to repeat some grades…like, all of them…
Hahahahaha Wow! BTW, is plagarism spelled with an i - like, plagiarism? How would I know, I’m not english. Cheers!
I used to put so much effort into trying to plagiarise, that I eventually worked out that if I put just as much effort into actually doing the work myself I’d pass with flying colours!
So much for the nation’s kids getting smarter! OK, so I used to cheat, but I never got caught doing anything so idiotic.
Colwyn Bay eh? Weird that StumbleUpon bought me to the only blog written in my hometown. Nice article.
Wait there….are you Aled’s brother?
There is no way that is true what sort of moron… oh I worry about our future
Hahahahahahaha..and so forth.
How the hell can you manage to even write ‘ads by google’ without realising what you are doing? Seriously! And these people are getting qualifications??