Dave Hall wrote:
> I never question the engineers at google. They prove time and time again
> they are way more clever than me. I don't doubt they can tie searches to a
> region. They already do that for adsense, I use adwords and target at
> Saskatchewan. I can't say for sure it's completely accurate but the
> click throughs I get are all from Saskatchewan. There's not reason they
> couldn't tie the live search into that same mechanism.
>
> It is surprising that real-time updates would be happening in searches,
> adwords keywords (which don't change in real-time) take a few minutes to
> become active, I assume they are processed in batch.
They also tie in your local browser history into the suggestions within
Firefox. If you had visited a site that included the words 'Dr.
Popsicle' in its content, it would likely be suggested to you.
Michael
Received on Wed Feb 7 12:00:58 2007
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