[Venturer]

I stopped using Google about a year ago.

Got tired of the direction they tried to guide me into.

[Sherman Logan]

I could probably make Google a bunch of money.

I’ve been noticing something lately on NRO and other sites that have side-ads, and something I really hate, popups.

The ads keep showing me sites I’ve looked up recently on Google, such as Choice Hotels and DeWalt Factory Outlet. Presumably because Google is tracking me and showing me ads they think I want to see.

Here’s the problem. I already have been to Choice Hotels. Why don’t the ads show me other hotel websites or sites touting other aspects of travel?

For the DeWalt Tools site info, why don’t they show other tool sellers?

Seems like Google’s tracking algorithms are terribly primitive. Amazon seems to do a much better job of extrapolating from a user’s search pattern to what else he might be interested in.