Google files several new social networking profiling patents

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Google files several new social networking profiling patents

Post by greggh » Mon Oct 06, 2008 11:36 am

Google Profiling Social Network Users

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid= ... 7&from=rss
Google is looking deeper into behavioral targeting of social network users with three more patents. A while back, one patent came to light in the poorly termed ‘friendrank;’ Google could be profiling social network users. These three patents now bring the series to five in total.
In addition, they filed this beauty a couple of weeks ago. http://www.thelinuxlink.net/forum/viewt ... f=2&t=3410

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