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Who Does Google Think You Are?

Posted February 03, 2012 8:19 AM

From BusinessWeek.com -- Technology:

A tool tells users what the company infers about your interests and age

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Re: Who Does Google Think You Are?

02/04/2012 12:49 AM

Interesting...Google thinks I understand Spanish...I wonder where they got that idea? I can't figure out what else they "know" about me, since I can't read Spanish...

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Re: Who Does Google Think You Are?

02/06/2012 6:47 PM

Quote from the article:

"Google is trying to figure this out, and when they do get it right, it will be game-changing," says Heidi Messer, co-founder of Collective[i], a company that specializes in analyzing marketing data. So many human interactions that used to be invisible to businesses are now tracked online, she says, adding that Google "literally has all of the data that anyone could want." The challenge is to make sense of it.

Now, just how in the h**l are they going to confirm that they've "got it right?"

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