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Who does Google think reads Chantal Hebert?

by billdoskoch on Fri 11 Nov 2005 05:39 PM EST | Permanent Link | Cosmos

Here were three of the four Google text ads that came up when I went to read Chantal Hebert's Toronto Star column online just now:

I can only presume the Google Adsense system thinks unemployed, gay-conservative-but-still-gay-marriage-supporting Christians looking for new blogs or a quick buck are the target demographic of the column.

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Re: Who does Google think reads Chantal Hebert?

by Cardinal47 on Mon 14 Nov 2005 12:15 AM EST | Profile | Permanent Link

Is Google the real Big Brother?

David A. Vise,co-author with Mark Malseed of "The Google Story," published this week by Random House, has an intriguing article in today's Washington Post entitled
What lurks in its soul?

Re: Who does Google think reads Chantal Hebert?

by billdoskoch on Mon 14 Nov 2005 04:09 AM EST | Profile | Permanent Link

In my case, I've never done a search on 'gay conservative blog' or 'jesus' + 'survey' + 'pay', so I don't think Google was saying much about me. :)

And for the hell of it, I just duplicated the search, and the ads were for Blue Man Group, Toronto.com and Toronto Entertainment.

However, the potential for abuse by Google is certainly real. The question I haven't seen fully answered is how much information Google has on individuals, given that you don't have to register to use it.

Another is how much information Google has on a person's IP address -- and whether they can link that IP address to a person.

Some have said Google is one big data spill away from major trouble from its users.

Anyway, if anyone's interested in the WaPo article, here it is.

Re: Re: Who does Google think reads Chantal Hebert?

by Cardinal47 on Mon 14 Nov 2005 10:14 AM EST | Profile | Permanent Link

These are good questions. I still find the scope of what they are planning mind-boggling. They could crash and burn but Microsoft keeps chugging along despite recurrent problems.

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