15 Aug 2007

Is google violating privacy norms

How many have mail accounts with yahoo and google??
I still have mail account with both of them.....
Getting to the point,
I have noticed that the online Ad's which appear when I open e-mail's on Gmail the Ad is linked to keywords in the mail,
while in yahoo it is still just revolving Ad's,
not noticed any real patterns with Yahoo.
A friend sent me a message on he becoming a dad with a subject line ( Baby)
( advertisements which appeared when I opened the message were -
Sponsored Links
Baby Gender SelectionChoose your Baby's Gender at Will in 3 Simple Steps with 94% Accuracywww.choosethesexofyourbaby.com
Can't have a baby?And not sure why? Here's how we conceived after 5 years of tryingwww.PregnantGetting.com)

Google definitely seems to be ahead in the game of online advertising, it leads the online advertising market with a market share of 17% and yahoo not far behind with 16%....
I think the targeted advertising is what most marketing managers will be looking forward to, it is a great innovation and will help get better results for people advertising on Google,

Heard the pricing is a combination of no of competitors for the product ,
Sometimes it as low as $2 per click and could go up to $10 or even more ...
It will be interesting get hold of the pricing policy by google....

but thing to ponder is,
e-mail is supposedly a private communication but google does not seem to think so.
I am not sure if the companies placing ads with google, also get our details from google, stating that these subscribers are interested in such kind of products ?
Do you think this is a violation of privacy?
If google is selling that kind of data than I think they are headed for some trouble?