The divine Valerie several months ago introduced me to the concept of What does your TiVo think you are? – that after some measurement of your behaviour it can extrapolate to find other programmes that you might like, and record them on your behalf.
I heard reports of peoples’ TiVos coming to the most bizzare conclusions about their habits, “spontaneously” recording foreign language pr0n, stuff like that; I can’t help but wonder how much of this is due to bad extrapolation, and how much to people not wanting to fess-up to their TV habits, but it seemed an amusing concept nonetheless.
I don’t have a PVR but I do have a Blog, and Technorati is one place that leverages my free content for which I (currently) receive no monies, for their own profit.
Assuming that Google Ads reflect the page that I am visiting, rather than my past history of browsing, it seems that Google most definitely thinks I am a security person…
…but there’s quite a wide gulf between 128-bit SSL, and 775 Kilovolt Stun Guns.
Maybe Google’s classification system, like TiVo’s, could be refined a bit?
Update:I wonder if I do not presume too much, given thaat the page in question is that of my “Technorati Universe” and not a security blog per-se?
That said if most people visiting the page (click “Technorati Search” in the sidebar near the top) get security stuff too, that’d be evidence that it is measuring my page, rather than my behaviour.
What do you find?
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