I've noticed this too, and my speculation is that adlinks looks at other pages, maybe even a site as a whole, to generate topics.

That may not be it, but certainly it can work differently.

I wish they would sort it out, or at least get the bots to do a similar job. I am starting to remove adsense from many of the pages and wait to see if things improve in future. I value my visitors more than income, and wasting my time doing a job that google should be doing.

You could always try adlinks in place of the ads....

I have the same problem on one site, adlinks ads are on topic, but the standard ads pick up on some words in the page that throws it off, or something, and display ads that aren't relevant to the general topic of the site. I don't know if they've been experimenting with calibration in the past weeks, but my CTR on that site hasn't been great ever since.

Hi Koan.
I added the adsense "ignore" code on every word that said "rabbit" and still showed rabbit adverts many many hours later. I couldn't add the ignore code to any of the meta tags or title tag of course, so I guess I will have to remove the advert and wait till google increases the limit on the filters or some other fix.

You could always try adlinks in place of the ads...

I did think of that, but would prefer google to have their bots do work in a similar fashion. We are supposed to add and forget. More like, add the code and forget any income. ;)

I've seen this many times but when I walk over to my other computer and load up the same page the ads are fine.

Occasionally the results are creepy on my work computer actually. When I check a page before I publish it adsense plops down ads related to the contents of my desktop as if the ad bot had a good read of my computer or something. I have some files with extremely unique words that don't return results on Google EVER yet the page ended up with the file name + "cheap" + a popular auction site.

I'm sure I'm not the only one to have caught this, like I said though - only on the computer I previewed the page with.

I've noticed that often the Adlinks seem to be more accurate. But I don't mind the discrepancy. It offers more variety of ads to the end user if you are using both on the same page.

That is one main reason we use the Adlink along with the regular text-link blocks, they seem to vary enough to complement each other, instead of having more of the same ads... etc.