Google is watching you, but their binoculars suck.

Aug 04, 2011 22:50

It's no secret that I love Google products. In fact, I recently sent an email that ended with the sentence "Have you accepted the love of Google into your heart?" I opt out of some of their advertising features, but otherwise let them data mine to their heart's content, because they use they data to make some genuinely cool shit. Yes, they will ( Read more... )

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keitess September 9 2011, 02:56:23 UTC
If it makes you feel any better, they think I'm male, too. They do have my age group correct, but looking at the rest of it, they apparently think I'm a 22-year-old male who is a hopeless shut-in and substitutes games for a social life. ...Admittedly, most of that is true.

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firelizard5 September 11 2011, 16:10:15 UTC
I think the algorithms assume that only boys play video games.

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keitess September 12 2011, 19:55:29 UTC
Probably. It seems like we should have gotten past the 'OMG there are GIRLS on the INTERNET?!?!' stage by now, doesn't it?

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ext_2824349 October 17 2014, 10:41:04 UTC
interesting post

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