Archive for July 9th, 2009
An article on Wired.com Epicenter reports on Google’s latest move: behavioral profiling ads. In a nutshell, anything you do on Google sites (including YouTube), combined with the info from DoubleClick (which Google recently acquired), can now be used to target your preferences on any sites using Google’s AdSense banners. Most telling is this quote from the [ READ MORE ]
And Google joins the “you carry our phone in your pocket, but we still own it” club: CNet reports on Google’s decision to nix a tethering application for its G1 phone from the Android Market. I can only wonder if this is the first in a series of arbitrary moves similar to those Apple has made. I [ READ MORE ]