<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Good. I am busy with garden workers today but will think about it. What else I want to know is how did they get your email address?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">From Google?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 11:23 AM <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com">spike@rainier66.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_-1499541384767743766WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div style="border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:none;border-top:1pt solid rgb(225,225,225);padding:3pt 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> <a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com" target="_blank">spike@rainier66.com</a> <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com" target="_blank">spike@rainier66.com</a>> <br><br><u></u><u></u></p></div></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal">>…BillW of course if you shop online for anything, you will be pummeled mercilessly for weeks by purveyors of that product. Nothing particularly creepy about that: the reason the WWW grew and prospered is that there are skerjillions of ways to hawk one’s wares there. So there was a lotta lotta money behind its explosive growth. Cool! <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">>…What I want to know now is if one enters the name of a product into the Google line without hitting Return, will it figure out what I was looking to buy? I have a Google window open right now. I enter “Wool sweater for sale” but I did not hit Enter. I will leave it there for a few minutes, then delete it without ever entering any site or search list. Then I will see if I get wool sweater spam. spike<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">OK cool, it’s what I already knew: if you Google on something you want to buy, your ad-driven sites will send you ads for that. No mystery, that’s how they make their living and why they give you free information on stuff you care about, no problem. I entered wool sweater for sale, a few minutes later accidentally hit return, OK we know what happens. Then I entered Pickup truck tires for sale, didn’t hit return, didn’t get ads (so far.)<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">OK no surprises.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Now I want to find out how much the great internet marketplace can learn from my Google searches and my clickstreams, and I want to repeat the phone hotspot experiment, see if I can replicate what happened before. It might have been a coincidence, or the phone might have figured out my location (near one of the biggest wind generation areas) and sent me ads based on that, guessing that I went there to see the turbines. I might even be able to explain the hoodie ads that way too: I was near-ish to some textile mills. Shrugs.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Here’s what we should do: design some experiments find out what the market can find out about us.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Ideas?<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">spike<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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