"native advertising"

[Benjamin Barrett]

I hope that didn't sound flippant.

I've been wondering about the Facebook ads that look irritatingly close to real posts, whereas the Google ads stick out (to me, anyway) as clearly being ads and therefore irrelevant to my search. This is definitely a useful term.

Wiktionary (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/native) has two definitions for "native" that are relevant:

4. Born or grown in the region in which it lives or is found; not foreign or imported.
	a native inhabitant
	native oysters or strawberries
	Many native artists studied abroad.

6. Pertaining to the system or architecture in question.
	This is a native back-end to gather the latest news feeds.
	The native integer size is sixteen bits.

Benjamin Barrett
Formerly of Seattle, WA

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On Sep 15, 2014, at 5:24 PM, Benjamin Barrett <gogaku at ix.netcom.com> wrote:

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> Which is the environment, right? Newspapers also have that sort of thing. BB=
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>> That may be, but the examples I saw on "Last Week Tonight" were clearly
>> intended yo look like news.
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>> Yahoo! News does it every day.
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>>> The Wiki link says not objective but so as to match the environment. BB
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>>>> On 15 Sep 2014, at 16:44, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
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>>>> What could it be?
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>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_advertising
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>>>> In simpler terms, it's advertising disguised to look as much like
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>>>> news as possible. Evidently the wave of the future as news outlets starv=
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>>>> Why "native"? Who cares?

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