Just a little bit about how Google Ads work, and domestic spying
I've been chatting up heavy the business of power utility "Demand Response" lately here at www.CultureKitchen.com .
This is where the utility will be able to cut power to AC via automatic control if there are dangers of the Electric Grid going unstable during peak loads.
(Heat waves)
This conversation ends up heavy with key words like HVAC energy etc etc.
Thanks to Google's search technology, AI and on going screening of web content they can then post "targeted ads"
For example from last night:
Now take for example, the same key word sensitive Advertising now running on MySpace with 145,000,000 accounts and 400,000 to 600,000 blogs posted daily.
That's a lot of keyword sensitive oversight, and a lot of computing horsepower.
Now, if it were national security issues we were worried about.....
How hard does anyone think it is to automatically and with a little AI tossed in for sorting
watch for key words like "Assassinate the President"
?
Does it make you think? It does me.
Bookmark/Search this post with:
| 
| 
| 
| 
| 
Google | Internet | NSA
OMG
Submitted by liza on 5 January 2007 - 11:58pm.
It's like you say : AI and their algorythms. Yet ... yet ... I honestly think it is a way of spying.
I have always considered this site as a sort of think tank and incubator [Hey T, I have a post coming your way :)] So the database is chock'full of keywords --hundreds upon hundreds.
I remember when Google started trolling blogs --I've had sites under culturekitchen since 2000-01 but blogs since 2002. There were only about 100K blogs in the world. Now there's over 65 million. We've been around for so long the web spiders just looooove this site. And all kinds of bots come here --at one point, we were being hit by the carnivore project.
The SEO of this site is dang good --this site has a ranking of 7 in Google. It's insane considering that, depending on the search string, culturekitchen ranks higher than Forbes, NY Times or Washington Post --and we have about 1/1000th of their traffic.
Which is why we get read in all departments of the government, as well as universities and agencies world-wide. We end up being the first stop in a lot of people's researches ---especially feminist issues, philosophy, history.
The funny thing though is that, as much "serious" writing as we have here, what ultimately gets the most hits are things like photos of hearthrobs like Juanes, Benicio del Toro or Viggo Mortensen or, right now the #2 pages of the month seem to be Jennifer Holliday in Dreamgirls and Jennifer Hudson's version of "And I Ain't Going" for the movie. Oh, and always my now infamous post about Condoleeza and Dubya; which is the most read post in the history of this site.
Since posting that one, I actually came to terms with the probability that my site would be monitored :lol:
Of course, it is.
Hold your shorts
Submitted by SteamGeek on 9 January 2007 - 12:14am.
The Google ads were rolled out on MySpace over the recent Holidays. One of my Readers earlier today left a comment with this example of how they are "showing up"
Other MySpace bloggers are noticing many similar examples of targeted ads of various flavors.
Although the Google ads are now on the "main" interface pages: editing home page / blog control center / mail / main blog - the Adsense program is not available for MySpace bloggers (yet).
Continued examples of "targeted" ads
Submitted by SteamGeek on 9 January 2007 - 12:09am.
From subsequent blog posts after the first example:
and most recent:
This applies to most any subject.
Just because its funny....
Submitted by SteamGeek on 9 January 2007 - 12:19am.
Blog about Google, get a Google Ad:
One Can Never be Too Careful
Nothing out here is private. Nothing.
I tend to operate on the assumption that anything I write can and will be used against me. Once I hit the enter key and post, it is public domain.
Sometimes paranoia is reasonable.