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- kuz2r, on 06/27/2008, -5/+23Your privacy is an illusion
- ElectricKetchup, on 06/27/2008, -1/+16I, for one, welcome our new targeted advertising overlords. I'd rather see ads for products I might be interested in than products that annoy me.
- serif69, on 06/27/2008, -1/+14Thailand tourism sites
- pitchblack16, on 06/27/2008, -1/+13google is taking over the world
- serif69, on 06/27/2008, -3/+13I don't understand why people think carefully targeted advertising is so evil and privacy-invading. You're already typing all kinds of private stuff into Google (of which Google keeps a log, and always has) over a non-secure connection without thinking about it and now all of a sudden you're concerned for your privacy? If anything, it will end up being far less annoying than traditional ads because it will be for things you would actually want to use. It also benefits advertisers quite a bit because their turnover will see a decent increase as their ads reach more interested people. As far as I see it, everyone wins.
- shadowspawn, on 06/27/2008, -1/+7I got in a fight with my fiance and we were writing scathing emails to each other. We actually made up pretty quickly and joked about what we were writing each other after we showed each other screenshots. Gmail's advertising was trying to sell us all sorts of things after each barrage of pure emotional venting via ascii was scanned by their target advertising algorithm.
It became just damn silly as we went off into lala land just to see where the advertising would go with our text.
I wonder if that was the point of the advertising; something therapeutic for us? Or is there a different purpose.... because it was very subliminal in an eerie sort of way. - Kinnkster, on 06/27/2008, -2/+8What happens when you search "child" and then "porn"?
- inactive, on 06/27/2008, -1/+6I will take text ads any day over those huge flashing epileptic inducing ads on msn
- CCB0x45, on 06/27/2008, -0/+5You block ads and never click on them, potential loss of business from you: 0.
Don't think google cares about people like you, I dont like this anymore than the next person, but google has to make money, and they are solely making money from their ads right now, even if they lost 10% of their business but were able to increase revenue by 50% more ad clicks because of this(which is an unlikely scenario) I dont think they will care, and switch to yahoo or live, or ask.com... all of which blow and Im sure would do the same thing in a heart beat because they are trying to increase revenue to catch up with google.
Anyways this is different than facebook, facebook tracked your purchases and showed them to everyone.
If google is doing what they do with gmail, they only store what they need to to show the process and nobody else sees it..
And as for blocking ads... it annoys me that so many people do this, but then at the same time rant and rave about net neutrality... if you really support net neutrality then you wouldn't block ads, because it is people blocking ads that make companies have to figure out other ways to support the servers and staff to have their websites, and have to think of more invasive ads, stupid clips that play before movies, and rethink their business models(like subscription services and whether or not the net should be neutral).
I would wonder how long they store it for... like if I search, midget porn, and my girlfriend gets on and looks for bikinis, is it gonna show her ads for midget in bikinis? - Skankingmike, on 06/27/2008, -1/+5Master Shake: Computer! Search for teeth.. and plaque conspiracy.. and Metallica..
Meatwad: And Justin Timberlake! - unknownpoltroon, on 06/27/2008, -0/+4Welcome to www.Pedobear.com, your home for cute bear sneakers that measure how far you walk!
- 955701, on 06/27/2008, -0/+4Search #1: Farm living
Search #2: livestock
Search #3: Raising Goats
..... a little time passes
Search #4: sex
AAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagggggh! My Eyes!!!!!! - RetroRufio, on 06/27/2008, -1/+5... "Google again!"
- bbqsalad, on 06/27/2008, -1/+5Google is great, But could easily turn very, very evil.
- lardoandkeg, on 06/27/2008, -0/+3Google is going to display porn ads on every page? Because if they know what I want then that is what they will give me.
- mapkinase, on 06/27/2008, -1/+4Too bad I won't see the results of the work, if you know what I mean
- phorty40, on 06/27/2008, -0/+3dug for classic ATHF.
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www.ebay.com - RyeBrye, on 06/27/2008, -0/+3minor correction. 2 years, 211 days... so almost 3 years ago they were doing this.
- surreal1111, on 06/27/2008, -0/+2ads arnt going away anytime soon... at least they should be relevant to my interests
- whoreable, on 06/27/2008, -0/+2Too bad they can't legally market vagina....Cause that's what I really want.
- jgzman, on 06/27/2008, -2/+4Logged in just to digg you down. Hope you're happy.
- inactive, on 06/27/2008, -0/+2Some problems i have with google ads, i search for something to do with a specific computer part, model # and etc, maybe the first sponsored links are newegg and tiger direct , ( i like newegg, and shop there often) so i click the newegg link, and of course, it just takes me to the main page and not what i searched for, after spending time newegg didn't have the specific item. So google just dumps to you whatever sponsor regardless if they actually have the item you searched for.
- RyeBrye, on 06/27/2008, -3/+5"Google for the first time..." - *****. This is not the first time.
They have been doing this for a long, long time. It was over a year or two ago I discovered google was doing this with their AdSense - I was on a bunch of sites about one topic, and then jumped to a completely different site that had nothing to do with the topic (I think it was rock climbing or blackberries...) - but all of the adds on the new site had to do with the content I was previously looking at. Content which had no contextual relationship with the page I was on.
When I posted a story about it to digg, people in the comments THEN were saying how it was old news....
So... Congrats - New York Times - on being at least 2 years late in breaking this 'story'.
( Here's a link to the thing I submitted 2 years and 11 days ago about the same topic http://digg.com/tech_news/Google_stalking_you_to_p ... ) - jebzaki, on 06/27/2008, -0/+2"Don't be evil" - Google motto
hmmmm - CCB0x45, on 06/27/2008, -2/+3people bitch about privacy in these situations because people are idiots. if google was showing people your results, then the invasion of privacy would be there, but since they are doing the exact same thing they have always done but now factoring it into their ads in a different algorithm, everyone is up in arms... yet they will search for porn all day long on their neighbors wifi and create accounts on demonoid and download tons of movies.
- jriggs420, on 06/27/2008, -1/+2...of course when you say 'they', you really mean 'I'.
- inactive, on 06/27/2008, -1/+2I do XD.
- peaceninja, on 06/27/2008, -2/+3interpol's home page
- weebit, on 06/28/2008, -0/+1I actually emailed Google long ago and told them that if they really wanted to please the masses about their ads then please set a good example, and do their best to be sure none of their advertisers were scammers, etc. I never heard back from them. But I didn't expect to hear back from them either. I just think it is time for Internet businesses to take action and help clean the internet up. So far it just looks like they don't care, that almighty dollar matters more to them, than trying to protect the Internet.
I did ask a few new computer users if they went to a legit website like say Google, and saw a ad for something they really liked, would they click on the ad link? All of them said yes. Asked aren't you worried about spam, viruses, spyware, fraud, etc? " No " biggest reason why? Because they were on a reputable site in the first place.
But you can't rely on the reputable websites to have friendly ads anymore. So when I see that Google or any other website claims to know what I want... I just cringe. - RyeBrye, on 06/27/2008, -0/+1Gmail ALWAYS targets adds to the content of your email.
What would be even creepier is if they were targeting ads based on your email to you when you weren't reading your email - which is what they are ramping up to do. - stasis88, on 06/27/2008, -0/+1You're dumb, you think this is outrageous? there is nothing wrong with this, who gives a *****! You know how many other sites use users info to target advertising? You know how many stores do this already before the internet existed. You are already typing in and submitting all sorts of stuff to google, they know what you're searching for already so whats the big deal if they use that to give you relevant ads. Stop getting your panties in a bunch for nothing, and yes you will keep using google...
- diabetic, on 06/27/2008, -0/+1That page links to an advertisement.
- mmastrac, on 06/27/2008, -1/+2Targeted ads are sometimes interesting too.. I'm far more likely to read the ads in a programming trade magazine than on the web. ]]>
- shaun1018, on 06/27/2008, -2/+3Better than most of the alternatives.
- pw378, on 06/27/2008, -1/+2Blame the advertiser for not using the Referer: header to direct you to the appropriate place on their website...
Google ads are designed by advertisers. Google only targets the ad, it doesn't develop the content or the destination link. - Burnybahd, on 06/27/2008, -1/+2They already do this everywhere. It's called adsense.
- shaun1018, on 06/27/2008, -1/+2I see what you did there.
- EmperorAwesome, on 06/27/2008, -1/+1Privacy's one thing, but if they ever start putting up those ads I'll stop caring about who's tracking what.
- farTart, on 06/27/2008, -1/+1That's the last time I research ingredients. First I had to look up steaks, and then cheese.
I was DISGUSTED at the advert I was shown, I tell you.. - AllYourBase3, on 06/27/2008, -2/+2and I will continue to never click on a single advertisement on any website
- treelovinhippie, on 06/27/2008, -1/+1Ah FFS, I know this sounds like *****, but in my current state, literally 5min ago I was thinking about how Google a little while back had to stop logging everyone's searches... I came up with this idea that Google should somehow track users search results so that if someone searches a specific term or question. And then comes back to search the same thing (obviously they hadn't found the answer). then bam... you show an ad which will hopefully answer the user's query.
hmm, collective intelligence connection or mere coincidence lol. - metromax, on 06/27/2008, -1/+1Agreed. Also, people are using Google, so Google inadvertently has a right to look up what you are searching on THEIR search engine. Same goes for e-mails, that's why you have to agree to terms of service.
- BrandonKutzler, on 06/27/2008, -1/+1But wait... If I search for, say, "porn" one day, and then my sister searches "WebKinz" the next day, will she see ads related to Hot Lesbian Action?
- batmanz, on 06/27/2008, -1/+1Hey, it's just like spyware, alright!!
There is no way I am ever, ever going to click on a Google ad. - vcdx, on 06/28/2008, -0/+0I'd rather having some privacy than looking at a bunch of ads with stuff that I don't need at all
- CCB0x45, on 06/27/2008, -1/+1caught me.
- tripledjr, on 06/27/2008, -1/+1You are rude. That is not an illusion.
- SSUK, on 06/27/2008, -1/+1No, what GMail and Adsense do is pick out keywords from pages and display ads around words on a page. This technology will save what you have just searched for in Google or pages which use Adsense will collect information to display ads relevant to your browsing when on other sites using Google advertisement. Similar ideas, different in execution.
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