Behavioral Targeting: What Do Your Google Queries Reveal?

[spaceking66]

if possible please come up with a legal way to download and burn movies .music.videogames.software etc if possible thanks

[03SilverMustangGT]

@spaceking66 That will never happen.

[Hopeful71]

Your mic is fine, you need to turn off your cell phone...

[670Kiester]

What ever data 'they' get about people or groups of people will be used against those same people or groups.

Evil case: Intimidation because of your politics/ beliefs etc

More likely case: Find better cleverer ways to market to/ manipulate people, keep us all running on our little hamster wheels of consumerism.

[LokiClock]

Behavioral marketing is stalking.

[tubbymanbat]

@LokiClock yep you are right

[BrutusBlackest]

Simple remedy for anyone not prone to this level of privacy "invasion"- stop using search engines. Go low-tech and head to your local library. I know its a novel idea but, humor yourself.

[d3st88]

@BrutusBlackest

Library? Library my ass. I might as well go back to carving my thoughts into stones and dying twenty-something.

Search engine technology is the best thing that happened in the advancement of the human intellect/entertainment/whatno­t so far.

[BrutusBlackest]

@d3st88

Maybe you're right, unfortunately, I wasn't arguing for the validity of the tech. I was addressing those that feel that the technology is too invasive.

[abdishtar]

Interesting. I'm not so certain whether or not to take a hard stance against this or not. But before people flip out on these companies, remember what they do with the info:

They find stuff you're interested in, and help you find more of it.

So it's not as bad as it first may seem.

[wrongheadedfool]

Maybe the people who do this shouldn't be in jail, but it should definitely be illegal. This is something you should have the choice to opt in for, and should never be done behind your back.

[abdishtar]

@wrongheadedfool

I disagree, think about why.... you put the info online on their search engines. What their doing is finding ways to better serve you based on what you are searching for. Why make it illegal? Though I do agree, it is a serious privacy issue. Though you do put the info out there.

[ananiasacts]

What about people like Karl Pilkington that enter search terms like "why" to see if they can confuse the computer?

[k166a]

Scary!

[pye333]

4chan

[KeeperOfTheWord]

What is anonymity today? Not much!

[PSK11489]

@KeeperOfTheWord

Porn.

[KRA3030]

All this means is that Google might find out that everyone has hemorrhoids and Chlamydia... who is Googling their innermost thoughts? Do they not know it's a search engine and not a blog?

[TheLonelyImmortal]

The last thing I searched was "Fucking Lisa Kudrow", because I wanted to know who she was, and a Machina video used the term. So that doesn't tell anything about me, but you could CONJECTURE that it does. But it doesn't.

But yeah- they belong in jail.

[cokmobot]

1:48. Google's what page?

[123sidsid]

my first, first comment :D

And The sound on this vid is a lil off, couldn't hear it properly.

Maybe it's my computer though.

[Snowflake70]

@123sidsid It could be your computer or it could be because they are watching you and wanting to understand why you are watching - what you are watching for, to see if you're guilty of some sort of terrorist searches......

We all know privacy is a myth but . . . .

[screwopenborders]

@Snowflake70 They still won't know who you are unless you give personal info out regularly.

[123sidsid]

@Snowflake70

I'm definitely guilty :P

well not in this country but maybe in another. Thank God.