A curiosity

This morning I wanted to find out about a more or less obsolete medical phrase 'organic mental syndrome' which cropped up in a book by the late Allen Hobson (reference 1). One of the sites that Bing turned up was reference 2.

A site which appears to offer useful information on various topics, but information which is offered on screens more than half of which have been turned over to advertisements. In the snap above from Sykes, who sell me holiday cottage time and who also push lots of advertisements at me, but there are lots of other advertisers, some with tacky click-bait. So a site which can respond to a wide range of search keys, but which mainly exists to deliver advertisements.

I associate to the hotel booking sites which respond to any hotel flavoured search key, whether or not they have anything remotely near the place in question. Booking sites which I make a point of avoiding, preferring to book direct.

Curiously, this site seems to tell you nothing about itself and neither Bing nor Google seem to know anything about it either, although there is a village of the same name in East Sussex, to be found at reference 3. One wonders what exactly is going on.

PS: I suppose one way of looking at all these advertisements is that they are a sort of tax which goes to provide all the services which Bing and Google appear to offer for free. With the costs of the advertisements being included in the prices of more or less everything that we actually buy. It also goes to provide advertising companies and their various creative hangers-on - for example leggy models and graphic artists - a handsome living. All matters which I hope to dilate on at greater length in due course.

References

Reference 1: 13 Dreams Freud Never Had – J. Allan Hobson – 2005.

Reference 2: https://warbletoncouncil.org/.

Reference 3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warbleton.