Re: Amazing

On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 11:00:03AM -0700, Michael R. Schwab wrote:
> 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.

See, the U.S. doesn't need to build their own data mining software to track
your un-American activites. They just need to buy the information from
google.
Received on Wed Feb 7 12:05:29 2007