Well, but google is keeping track of how many times you call your mother, and other things to get an idea of your habits so they have a better chance of you getting an ad that is more targeted towards what you may want to buy or might be willing to make an impulse buy. Or so they can sell those trends to somebody else so that they can target you in other ways.
People pay for those ad views based on impressions, and they count those, and probably where they are displayed, and maybe even who they display them too, so they can measure your willingness to click. Psychological tricks used to sell me things worry me a lot more than a program that seeks to identify trends in usage for the purpose of understanding the timing of a terrorist attack. > -----Original Message----- > From: Dana [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, July 30, 2006 4:56 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: google is scary > > huh ok. I still disagree with your legal interpretation, but I'm glad you > agree with my feelings about it. > > personally, I worry a lot less about google. If they can make a little > money telingl me about something that may be useful to me, then more power > to them. I think that we alll know that the sites we look at are > already available to whomever might have a cookie on our hard drives, and > much of that really doesn't help the way a focused ad does. I mind that a > lot less than someone is checking out how often I call my mother....and > yes, > I realize a data warehousing operation is not concerned with me > specifically, but I don't like the information being out there in > governmental hands. Even though my mother is the most inoffensive of women > and we are doing nothing wrong, nor anything that could be construed as > wrong. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:212058 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
