Google Now Lets You Target Ads At Yourself
Google is wading into behavioral ad targeting in a big way
today. It will start placing cookies on consumer's browsers to collect
information about their interests whenever they visit sites that show
AdSense contextual ads. Then it will show ads targeted to those
interests to the same person as he or she browses the Web on other sites
that also serve AdSense ads (which is a large portion of all commercial
sites).
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GrandCentral To (Finally) Launch As Google Voice. It's Very, Very Good
GrandCentral, a phone management service that first launched in
2006 and was acquired by Google for $50+ million in 2007, hasn't been in
the news much lately. Other than a few good natured jabs at their
marketing gimmicks and coverage of outages, that is.
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Top Georgian Official: Moscow Cyber Attacked Us - We Just Can't Prove It
Last summer, three weeks before the shooting war between Georgia
and Russia began, online attackers started assaulting Georgia's
websites. Since then, researchers have tried to find out who
masterminded the network strikes - military electronic warriors,
patriotic hackers, cyber-crooks - without finding anything definitive.
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Iron Eagle Nominee: Israeli Armsdog-Millionaires Assault Bollywood, Good
Taste
Let's say you're a defense-company marketing executive. And you
want to make a splash at the Indian defense ministry's annual air show.
Do you: (a) buy expensive gifts for New Delhi's generals; (b) treat the
press to Kingfishers and samosas; (c) produce a Bollywood-esque video
featuring bare-midriff girls, flower-draped missiles, and the catch
phrase "dinga dinga dee?"
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