Comments on: Is Google taking behavioral data to display?

By: Brian

Brian — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 01:35:41 +0000

Google does save your behaviour and url.
When you use Google’s service they simply match your earlier visited web pages with the Ads.

For further reeding visit:
- http://adwords.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=6084
- http://www.google.com/privacypolicy.html

By: Amanda

Amanda — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 18:03:31 +0000

I’ve noticed I’m getting alot of bigger penis ads in my yahoo inbox and also in other sites that have advertising on them. Its quite annoying. I did the test and came up as 81% male so maybe that’s way I’m getting them.

By: Marlon

Marlon — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 01:51:37 +0000

Maybe just selective perception on your end? They could have just placed a bid on “women”, which is a string contained in the textarea.

By: George D.

George D. — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:02:01 +0000

I had recently experienced the same ‘what’s going on here’ in a way I hadn’t noticed before. While researching various sites offering a particular product, I was of course getting related adverts in the search results. But then I eventually switched search topics, only to see more specific and highly accurate adverts related to my earlier search (but this after some time had passed).

I speculate that if your search doesn’t bring up sufficient ads, then google reverts to adverts based upon previously performed searches. It was almost as if Google was reminding me that it’s not too late to back and shop for those Adirondack chairs I was looking for..

By: Terri

Terri — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:14:26 +0000

I was getting wedding adds constantly before …. my wedding. They stopped after my status changed on a few sites and switched over to weight loss. I guess I should have indicated somewhere that I’m fit…?

By: Emily

Emily — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:45:34 +0000

Were you looking for coffee for your office?

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:08:04 +0000

Yes, same thing has happened to me…but it was related to a medical condition and searching for related doctors…..then targeted later that day for cure’s for my ailment on non-contextual pages.

Coffee is interesting, medical conditions is crossing the line!