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posted by [personal profile] bugshaw at 07:54am on 26/01/2012
Google thinks I am an 18-24 year old male, with an interest in SF movies, puzzles, and shopping.

(Article on Google Ad Preferences and inferred interests and demographics, via [livejournal.com profile] dalmeny)

As an aside, I could make Google cookies, iced with demographics and interests, and note which ones people choose so that in future I could provide them with better targetted cookies.
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posted by [identity profile] tamaranth.livejournal.com at 08:19am on 26/01/2012
Google also thinks I'm an 18-24yrold male. Who likes:

Arts & Entertainment - Movies
Arts & Entertainment - Movies - Thriller, Crime & Mystery Films
Arts & Entertainment - Music & Audio - Classical Music

Classical music! Such a young man's fancy!

Also, fascinatingly, Other Me has no demographic whatsoever. Probably safer that way :)
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posted by [identity profile] beckyc.livejournal.com at 09:22am on 26/01/2012
Google thinks I am 35-44, male and interested in Weather.

I don't know how it got that, because I'm usually the only person in a group who hasn't looked at weather reports. Though I suppose I do look up what the weather will be where I'm going on holiday.
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posted by [identity profile] cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com at 09:58am on 26/01/2012
Maybe it has "weather" for everyone in the UK? :)
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posted by [identity profile] cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com at 10:01am on 26/01/2012
Hm. 25-35, interested in programming, board games, roleplaying games and computer games. That's not bad...
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posted by [personal profile] owlfish at 10:47am on 26/01/2012
I'm 35-44 and male.
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posted by [personal profile] owlfish at 12:28pm on 26/01/2012
Oh, interesting comparison! I use two web browsers, one for most things (checked in previous comment), the other for mostly for teaching. (I have to be online to teach, so sometime it's easier to be able to close everything else to avoid the distraction.) The teaching browser is where I've been doing a fair number of pregnancy-related web searches lately. But! Nothing related to that shows up as an interest of mine, which is either odd, or really, really good of Google. On the other hand, it does seem to think I'm interested in "World Localities - Asia - South Asia - Pakistan" on that browser which I really cannot account for.
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posted by [identity profile] pseudomonas.livejournal.com at 11:19am on 26/01/2012
Google has no demographic or interest categories for me. Phew.
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posted by [identity profile] grytpype-thynne.livejournal.com at 06:54pm on 26/01/2012
I too am 18-24 with interests in punk, amusing cats, cricket and urban planning.

Either they're not very good at this or that's a lot of foam rubber you've been carrying around under your sweaters....
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posted by [identity profile] surliminal.livejournal.com at 08:46pm on 26/01/2012
I would really really like you to do the latter. Maybe an eastercon fanroom item? Oh pls.
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posted by [identity profile] surliminal.livejournal.com at 08:51pm on 26/01/2012
"No interest or demographic categories are associated with your ads preferences so far. You can add or edit interests and demographics at any time."

I could say this is cos I teach privacy law. But actually I choose not to delete my Google cookie cos I like the results. It is in fact prob because the OS on this netbook was nuked a few weeks ago. I *am* tempted to go add interests and see what happens

(this btw is what they call a transparent desktop and is in fact a good thing. The bad thing is invisible data collection and profiling which Google of course also do..)
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