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- Ryan2845, on 06/01/2008, -1/+66I predict a lot of ads for liquor and beer
- hugepedlar, on 06/01/2008, -1/+56So THAT'S why I keep seeing hair replacement ads. Sneaky *****!
- Mononuclear, on 06/01/2008, -3/+50This is coincidence, tag based, or fake. Image recognition technology is no where near this advanced. Google images has been trying to do stuff like this but it is not currently feasible. Google images can only go off file names, alt and title tags, and nearby text to figure what is in an image. They have also tried using tags where people write one or two words to describe the image. Without context and tags/keywords there is no way to tell what is in the image.
There is no technology that can currently do this. - kevman459, on 06/01/2008, -0/+26The text adds are just as creepy:
"Over 22 and single?"
"Like Foo Fighters and are over 22 and single?"
"Kevin, do you sit at home alone and masturbate with your own tears?"
Match.com!
Yeah I clicked... - thenonhacker, on 06/01/2008, -4/+26How can Facebook identify the objects in your photos and find a similar image to use in its ads? If it's a new in-house technology, then Google Image Search will surely benefit from it!
- DucoNihilum, on 06/01/2008, -0/+18You mean the ones we just read about one story ago....?
- Alexio, on 06/01/2008, -0/+16My facebook relationship has recently changed to single and now I don't stop getting ads about dating sites from them on the left. It's making me depressed. Talk about targeted advertising (or kicking me while I'm down).
- inactive, on 06/01/2008, -1/+14unless he has 'sunglasses' listed in his interests, this is a coincidence
- OverkillTASF, on 06/01/2008, -0/+12Is this why I get ads for meeting "other men" any time a visit a male friend's profile? Facebook thinks I'm gay. :-(
- spoogieking012, on 06/01/2008, -2/+13thank you adblock
- misterhat, on 06/01/2008, -0/+8I'm holding a shotgun and a dead gopher in my profile picture. I can't wait for this to take effect for me.
- ligyron, on 06/01/2008, -0/+7So that means Like.com can see every image you look at on Facebook...great
- 1longtime, on 06/01/2008, -0/+7"Can someone from Like/Riya let us know [...] in comments?"
They're writing an article based on pure conjecture and they have the balls to ask for confirmation in the article comments? Ah journalism without responsibility. In other news, pigs now pilot an F-22 into the moon. (Can someone please confirm this in the comments?) - JoaoPe, on 06/01/2008, -4/+11That's not triggered by pictures. Maybe the guy has "sun glasses" or "ray ban" written on photo description or something.
Image recognition as been around many years from now, but that's not the case. - geekchic, on 06/01/2008, -0/+7Image recognition software has been around in various forms for many years.
Most work is (typically) focused on security applications and web-filtering software, but identifying general aspects of images is not a particuarly new idea. - lesty420, on 06/01/2008, -1/+6I Hope i can buy the same thong as that drunk chick I saw today
- cyclopssmiley, on 06/01/2008, -0/+5http://upload3.net//uploads/546whatthehell.png
that is probably the funniest one I have seen - DemDude, on 06/01/2008, -0/+5God, will that stupid smug ABP spam ever end?
We get it, you don't see ads on most pages, big deal, I don't give a *****! - althanis, on 06/01/2008, -1/+6RTFA. It uses Like.com's image search technology.
- Frejesal, on 06/01/2008, -0/+4Oh man awesome! Tell us peasants more about this mythical adblock plus you speak of? Where can one obtain this mystical shield of warding? WORSHIP HIM! WOOOOORSHIP HIM!
- xptoast, on 06/01/2008, -0/+4Effective because people see his image when they view his page and possibly wish to own the same kind of glasses because they think they are cool.
- DucoNihilum, on 06/01/2008, -0/+4He's being dugg down? I see +4 / -0
- mamboboy, on 06/01/2008, -4/+8I guess that explains the recent penis reduction adverts on my page...gosh, I didn't know my bulge was so big!
- Mononuclear, on 06/01/2008, -1/+5Reading 2D letters and numbers in a captcha is completely different than recognizing real world objects in a photo. Not even close.
You have read about kitty captcha? The whole point is that those applications can't tell if the picture is of a cat or a dog or a sea lion etc. Now it might be possible to write some software to specifically tell if the picture has a cat or not in it. That is also very different than making an application that can recognize any object in a picture no matter the angle etc. - Startemus, on 06/01/2008, -0/+4Figured I'd test this out so I went to facebook to check out my profile...
no lie this is what came up first...
http://tinypic.com/usermedia.php?uo=WC4NXyOb8WUSd% ...
I'd guess they go by words on your profile cause it's hard to believe. - DraxusD, on 06/01/2008, -2/+5Lies. Buried as inaccurate.
- ligyron, on 06/01/2008, -1/+4If you haven't figured out yet that the purpose of AdBlock is to block ads, then I think you need help
- Radan, on 06/01/2008, -1/+4While it is technically possible to create a program which can detect certain objects, there's currently no application available which is anywhere near as advanced as being able to detect objects in 3D with acceptable accuracy. In order to do this, you'd have to firstly scan in every single object in every single angle, and map all of the characteristic features of that object. Also note how most things don't even have any characteristic features in many angles, at least not enough to be able to tell them apart from other things, and especially not in a static picture.
And seeing how all this is supposed to be done in real time by a web server with profit, we are nowhere near in achieving this. - TheSabre, on 06/01/2008, -0/+2Confirmed. (Can someone please cite this in another comment?)
- rollerboy, on 06/02/2008, -0/+2I keep getting ads about hot asian chicks, I thought it was good targeting but it doesn't always work.
- Wingman007, on 06/02/2008, -0/+2Nah, just generic red cups.
- djh816, on 06/01/2008, -0/+2you pretty much mangled that.
- beargrylls, on 06/01/2008, -0/+2It's overused!
- rypic7, on 06/01/2008, -2/+4PFFT. only 92 photos? noob.
- DucoNihilum, on 06/01/2008, -2/+4Seems as if, according to the article, this is totally unverified and mostly just guessing. Way to publish something that has absolutely no factual ground whatsoever. Buried as inaccurate.
- boojoy, on 06/02/2008, -0/+295% of the ads I get on Facebook at for BBW women (dating, I presume) sites. All the time. I am not a BBW lover. I have scoured my profile for anything that would cause this and have found nothing. But still, a ridiculous majority of the ads I get are for BBW women. Why Facebook? Why.
- goodkidyo, on 06/02/2008, -0/+2does it scan your cookies?
- mkameli, on 06/02/2008, -0/+2If you already have aviator sunglasses, why would you want to buy another pair?
- inactive, on 06/01/2008, -2/+4Amazing how diggers get so sensitive (should I say insecure??) as soon as dicks are involved and start burying even though the joke was funny.
- marnaq, on 06/02/2008, -0/+2Well. If that's true I'm sleeping with the lights on tonight. That's ***** creepy.
- ledguitar, on 06/01/2008, -0/+2This is a bad sign. I always see ads to find gay singles in my area...
- Zippo, on 06/02/2008, -0/+2Facebook has ads?
- D3koy, on 06/01/2008, -0/+1UN-POSSIBLE!
- baylat, on 06/02/2008, -0/+1what the hell?!
- nicejai, on 06/01/2008, -1/+2Sorry to bust your bubble, but you're so very wrong.
Google just released a google talk (two weeks ago?) on the subject of rapid image search/indexing and sparsely-supervised classification (automated image tagging).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bakKQFEFLCA
The tech is barely 6 months old, and it works very well; or at least well enough for Facebook to use for something exactly like this if they are quick and organized enough to implement the bleeding edge of machine learning research. - Daniel591992, on 06/01/2008, -0/+1Hey, maybe you should check out your spam folder. You seem a bit insecure...
- mintblogger, on 06/03/2008, -0/+1Sounds interesting. It's going to create a new kind of behavior among the active users of Facebook and I can easily predict some high load on their servers in near future.
- prgmctan, on 06/01/2008, -0/+1which they also said might just be a coincidence
- Mullinsmcd, on 06/02/2008, -0/+1And Victoria's Secret.....and probably various toilet manufacturers
- geekchic, on 06/02/2008, -0/+1I was seeing LOADS of them on Digg last year.
I got paranoid. -
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