For example, software like the "cookie" files attached to all Internet servers are ostensibly designed to speed user access to sites they have previously visited or to related sites. This not only provides a record of where a user has "surfed" on the Internet, it disposes search engines to follow what amount to habitual search paths. Just as knowing the feeding routes of game animals makes it possible for hunters to lie readily in wait for them, software like this in combination with geodemographic databases quite practically enables politicians to "place" politically useful information in the way of users who believe they are freely researching candidate platforms.
== a good metaphor for Google's business model. also, knowing our social graphs allows advertisers create the mere presence effect.
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Date: 2007-11-11 10:49 pm (UTC)==
a good metaphor for Google's business model.
also, knowing our social graphs allows advertisers create the mere presence effect.