<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4544894990000717388</id><updated>2012-02-17T04:40:42.645+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Just Some Thoughts</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vamsireddyblog.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4544894990000717388/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vamsireddyblog.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Vamsi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06152603983772046303</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>1</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4544894990000717388.post-1805543309249710319</id><published>2007-08-15T02:30:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2007-08-15T00:08:10.814+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Is google violating privacy norms</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;How many have mail accounts with yahoo and google??&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;I still have mail account with both of them.....&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;"&gt;Getting to the point,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;"&gt;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, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;"&gt;while in yahoo it is still just revolving Ad's, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;"&gt;not noticed any real patterns with Yahoo. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;"&gt;A &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;"&gt;friend sent me a message on he becoming a dad with a subject line ( Baby)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;"&gt;( advertisements which appeared when I opened the message were -&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Sponsored Links&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Baby Gender SelectionChoose your Baby's Gender at Will in 3 Simple Steps with 94% Accuracy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.choosethesexofyourbaby.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;www.choosethesexofyourbaby.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Can't have a baby?And not sure why? Here's how we conceived after 5 years of trying&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.pregnantgetting.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;www.PregnantGetting.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Google&lt;/span&gt; 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%....&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;"&gt;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, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;"&gt;Heard the pricing is a combination of no of competitors for the product , &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;"&gt;Sometimes it as low as $2 per click and could go up to $10 or even more ...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;"&gt;It will be interesting get hold of the pricing policy by google....&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;"&gt;but thing to ponder is, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;"&gt;e-mail is supposedly a private communication but google does not seem to think so.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;"&gt;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 ?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;"&gt;Do you think this is a violation of privacy?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If google is selling that kind of data than I think they are headed for some trouble?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4544894990000717388-1805543309249710319?l=vamsireddyblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://vamsireddyblog.blogspot.com/feeds/1805543309249710319/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4544894990000717388&amp;postID=1805543309249710319' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4544894990000717388/posts/default/1805543309249710319'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4544894990000717388/posts/default/1805543309249710319'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://vamsireddyblog.blogspot.com/2007/08/yahoo-vs-google-targeted-advertising.html' title='Is google violating privacy norms'/><author><name>Vamsi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06152603983772046303</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry></feed>
