Posted on 03/31/2012 7:43:15 PM PDT by Revolting cat!
By now you probably know that when you enter a term into a Google box and press the Return key (sometimes incorrectly called the Enter key), Google will show you back results that will be different if President Usurper entered the same term, or even if another member of the forum with whom you agree on everything except of course the Zimmerman-Martin case entered it.
It is called personalization of results, and we are supposed to think it is good. Somebody out there, even if it is merely a heartless programming algorithm, recognizes your uniqueness in this cruel, impersonal universe of ours, and isn’t that just precious, Miss Lonely?
You (and I) have been bitching about invasion of our privacy by Google, Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, E-Bay, PayPal, Skype and assorted other websites we visit, all of them owned by now by one or two giant companies with unaffordably high stock shares on the market. When you write a message in Gmail, the program saves the draught (mmmm, draught!) every few seconds, analyzes it and, SHAZAM, before you finish writing, displays on the right of the screen advertisements related to your life‘s concerns you mentioned therein, such as prescription medicines, adult diapers, smartphones and electric automobiles. No more having to visit libraries, pharmacies, newsstands to learn about things and services. No more calls to truck tire emporiums. No wonder Sears is going broke!
But you keep bitching about your so-called privacy. Well, let me tell you. The grocery chain where you shop and use your “membership” card, and the drugstore chain with a similar “membership” scam to save you a few cents on a few items, and the credit card companies, whose plastic “products” you scan at the checkout stands, know more about you, bud, and about your nasty habits, like avoidance of broccoli, and cheap socks purchases than Google and Facebook will ever know, and it’s been this way for years.
And how much do they really do with what they know? Sometimes it’s unnerving. Last month I was checking out prices of a musical instrument on e-Bay, and since then I’ve been seeing ads for this musical instrument on multiple websites, including as if by magic foreign ones. And I’ve been receiving e-mails from sites that I subscribe to, such as Amazon, again urging me to purchase this instrument. Heck, I don’t even need a trombone! Damn them, damn all of them!
Then, there is the comic relief. A few days ago, I had to cancel a duplicate account created by a family member on Western Union dot com, exchanged with WU some e-mails on Yahoo.com, and today saw the following ad on the thin banner above my Gmail Inbox:
Transfer Money To Mexico - WesternUnion.com/Mexico - WU Guarantees That Your Loved One In Mexico Will Receive The Funds.
Now, the beautiful country of Mexico full of friendly peaceful people is not mentioned anywhere in my Gmails or Yahoo e-mails. I do mention Switzerland, and some other lands quite often, but not Mexico. So why did Google assume that I was an undocumented alien wishing to send cash back to my poor peasant relatives South of the border, and not to my poor peasant relatives in Zurich and Geneve?
There is hope, the algorithms need some work.
Google’s confusing Mexico and Switzerland on your pc
because you’ve “been everywhere, man.”
Maybe they figure you will be south of the border soon! Or you might see Google as the latest iteration of the Ouiji Board....are you being haunted by Google these days,lol?
I think the terms are interchangeable on today’s keyboards.
Granny-alzheimers-adult diaper-girl on girl action ping!
Bwahahahahahahahaaaaa!
[I’m unique just like everybody else]
;]
Heck, Google is watching you watching them!
You could make your own custom search engine, as i have:
http://peacebyjesus.witnesstoday.org/Select_Apologetical_Links.html
How to: http://forums.christiansunite.com/index.php?topic=25745.0
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