| > I've been skiing all of my life and I've never bought a 'skiing magazine' and never visited a skiing website as far as I can mention. If you never visit skiing websites (and thus presumably also never search for skiing websites), and the likes of Google showed you an ad for ski gear, that would be the epitome of creepy. > It's not 'creepy' to get ads for Snowboarding when you're on Twitter, than it is for anything else. If you follow/view a bunch of skiing related accounts, its not unrealistic. If you don't follow/view any ski related accounts, then again, that is very creepy. But twitter is essentially the model we're talking about: show the visitor ads based on what they choose to view (mostly, afaik), not based on what they searched for last week on a different site. > the more efficient those communications channels, the better the products and services we would receive. Well while we're using anecdotal evidence, I've never seen an ad and thought "yeah that's actually just what I want, <click>". If I want something, I got search for it specifically. |