Comments on: Google - reinventing spyware? http://freepressblog.org/blog/2005/10/11/google-reinventing-spyware/ A collection of my thoughts and other random stuff I found interesting. Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:30:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Dan http://freepressblog.org/blog/2005/10/11/google-reinventing-spyware/#comment-3294 Dan Wed, 12 Oct 2005 04:04:14 +0000 http://freepressblog.org/blog/2005/10/11/google-reinventing-spyware/#comment-3294 I am agreeing with you. What I said was, google will not make as well known that they are making most of the money off the users habits. since a lot of people will get upset, like the gmail thing. I am agreeing with you. What I said was, google will not make as well known that they are making most of the money off the users habits. since a lot of people will get upset, like the gmail thing.

]]> By: JB http://freepressblog.org/blog/2005/10/11/google-reinventing-spyware/#comment-3293 JB Tue, 11 Oct 2005 23:18:35 +0000 http://freepressblog.org/blog/2005/10/11/google-reinventing-spyware/#comment-3293 But what I'm saying is I don't think they even need to put up ads in this case to make money. They can just sell stats to other advertising companies. Of course, they <em>could</em> also use it to customize any Google ads that get loaded while the user is surfing as well, but that would just be extra. There are a lot of companies that would pay big money to get the full surfing habits of a large group of people in a given geographic area. But what I’m saying is I don’t think they even need to put up ads in this case to make money. They can just sell stats to other advertising companies.

Of course, they could also use it to customize any Google ads that get loaded while the user is surfing as well, but that would just be extra. There are a lot of companies that would pay big money to get the full surfing habits of a large group of people in a given geographic area.

]]> By: Dan http://freepressblog.org/blog/2005/10/11/google-reinventing-spyware/#comment-3292 Dan Tue, 11 Oct 2005 23:08:00 +0000 http://freepressblog.org/blog/2005/10/11/google-reinventing-spyware/#comment-3292 duh, but they will say that most of their revenue is from the ads and not the harvesting of people's habits. duh, but they will say that most of their revenue is from the ads and not the harvesting of people’s habits.

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