banner blindness

noun

Etymology

Coined by Jan Panero Benway and David M. Lane for their 1998 paper Banner Blindness: The Irony of Attention Grabbing on the World Wide Web

Definitions

  1. A tendency to ignore banner ads and similar-looking banners on websites.

    • While consumers learned to develop "banner blindness" when performing keyword queries on search engines,[…]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for banner blindness. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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